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Style Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
- Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
- All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.
- You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.
- My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest…
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