Vladimir Nabokov's Quote - A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination o

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

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Genius is an African who dreams up snow. – Vladimir Nabokov

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A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past. – Vladimir Nabokov

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The tiny madman in his padded cell. – Vladimir Nabokov

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Ive got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination. – Chris Cooper

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Its what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places its never been before. Theres nothing better than that. – Robin Wright Penn

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For some reason I cant explain, artist and musicians tend to look younger than our age. Being in music, you need this youthful sense of discovery and wonder for what youre doing and keep your imagination open. Thats a youthful way of looking at life and I think that reflects in how you age. – Joshua Bell

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Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. – Joseph Addison

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Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive. – Arthur Henderson

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Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when youre on the boat thoughts are no different than anything else. – Jeff Bridges

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Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own Affairs than we. – Michel de Montaigne, “Of Experience,” translated from French by Charles Cotton

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It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other peoples lives. – Clint Eastwood

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