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

Other quotes by Ernest Hemingway

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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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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good
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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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Other Quotes from
Imagination
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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind. – Wallace Stevens

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Imagination

I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player. – Imran Khan

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Imagination

I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one. – Mike Krzyzewski

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Imagination

I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world. – Robert Carlyle

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Imagination

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Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell. – George Orwell

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That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges. – John Burroughs, Journal

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it. – Morton Hunt

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The sheep-people dont think for themselves anymore. You can say anything and its the gospel truth and they dont have to go research it or anything, and they believe everything the news tells them. People dont go and do their own investigations if its relationships or politics or anything. – Big Boi

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Politics