Ernest Hemingway

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The first draft of anything is shit.

Ernest Hemingway

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Topic

Incremental improvement Writing

Speaker

Ernest Hemingway

Source

With Hemingway: A Year in Key West and Cuba

Language

English

Time

1935 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Hemmingway, Ernest. Quoted in With Hemmingway: A Year in Key West and Cuba, by Arnold Samuelson. Random House, 1984.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Ernest Hemingway

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Cowardice

Author

Ernest Hemingway

Source

Men at War: The Best War Stories of All Time

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Definition

Language

English

Time

1942 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Hemingway, Ernest. Men at War: The Best War Stories of All Time. Crown Publishers, 1942, introduction.