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Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I. ↗

— Ralph Nader

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Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#fit #likely #masterpiece #original #reader

I hope you're representing the devil's advocate. ↗

— Charles Olson

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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

#bloodshed #detail #exceed #hard #harder

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. ↗

— Ralph Nader

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