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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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It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail. – Vladimir Nabokov

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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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One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. Were not scientists. We dont always have to make the logical, reasonable leap. – Stella Adler

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Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible. – Ida Tarbell

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The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt. – Henry George

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