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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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All my life Ive looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. – Ernest Hemingway

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Life
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Ive tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that Im afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred. – Ernest Hemingway

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Hope
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You write a book like that youre fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, its like pissing in your fathers beer. – Ernest Hemingway

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I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening. – Jerzy Kosinski

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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. – William Butler Yeats

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Imagination

What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, Oh, what this really is is so-and-so, reducing it to a simple formula. – Doris Lessing

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Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind. – Joyce Carol Oates

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Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking. – Margaret Fuller

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