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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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Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination. – Lionel Stander

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Whats in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first. – Phylicia Rashad

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Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it. – Robinson Jeffers

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An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after Ive left the opera house. – Maria Callas

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