"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual."
-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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"A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist."
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"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."
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"Genius is an African who dreams up snow."
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"Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know."
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"Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one."
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"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."
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"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."
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"We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home."
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"My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world."
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