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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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They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. – Ernest Hemingway

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I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of [$h¡t]. I try to put the [$h¡t] in the wastebasket. – Ernest Hemingway

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I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, Id try to reenact it. – Adrien Brody

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I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back? – Christina Aguilera

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The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that were disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning. – Richard Powers

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Kindness and intelligence dont always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships. – Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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