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All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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

— Vladimir Nabokov

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

— Charles Olson

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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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I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child. ↗

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

— Vladimir Nabokov

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The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

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