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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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I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently. – Ernest Hemingway

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Youre an expatriate. Youve lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around caf?s. – Ernest Hemingway

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Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine. – Louis Aragon

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It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination. – Robert South

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But in a 24-hour day, the 25th hour is also the impossible hour, an hour that doesnt exist, that can only be created by the imagination. – David Benioff

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The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination. – Richard Hofstadter

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