If you love people you criticize them, and if you don’t love them you don’t criticize them, you let them go to hell, don’t you? To help any kind of friendship, your marriage, your children, you criticize because you love.
RAY BRADBURYJump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.
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I don’t believe in government. I hate politics. I’m against it. And I hope that sometime this fall, we can destroy part of our government, and next year destroy even more of it. The less government, the happier I will be.
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There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.
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The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.
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Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.
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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.
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Don’t think about things, just do them; don’t predict them, just make them.
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I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
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Don’t worry about things. Don’t push. Just do your work and you’ll survive. The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, to be loving and to be explosive. Out of that comes everything and you grow.
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I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.
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Good to evil seems evil
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Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.
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You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
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You fail only if you stop writing.
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I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it’s immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it.
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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
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Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
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We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
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I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.
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Too late, I found you can’t wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.
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Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.
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Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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