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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

Other quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. – Vladimir Nabokov

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Art
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Vladimir Nabokov
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Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. – Vladimir Nabokov

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Sleep
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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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Nature
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Well, Im not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be as real as possible and find whatever commonality in that character that I can see myself. – Rashida Jones

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Imagination

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me. – Meryl Streep

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Imagination

I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from. – Amy Tan

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Imagination

When you are young your imagination is so clear. – Nina Blackwood

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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday. – John Burroughs

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Obscurity brings safety. – Aesop

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