Quote by Ernest Hemingway
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend

Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. – Ernest Hemingway

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There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention. – Ernest Hemingway

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About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. – Ernest Hemingway

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That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best – make it all up – but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way. – Ernest Hemingway

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We can live with lots of things, but we cant live without imagination, we cant live without hope. – Ariel Dorfman

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Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, its so grimly brutal! – Robert Creeley

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Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and Ive fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse. – Mary Wesley

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I dont think its possible to touch peoples imagination today by aesthetic means. – J. G. Ballard

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