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Quote by Vladimir Nabokov
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination o

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist. – Vladimir Nabokov

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Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know. – Vladimir Nabokov

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I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, its a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at lifes realities. – Dr. Seuss

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Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment. – William Warburton

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It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart it being much more sensitive. – Henry David Thoreau

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The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination. – Richard Hofstadter

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