The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.
RAY BRADBURYI don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
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We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes. And it seems like nothing – but when you’re looking back. Well, it amounts to everything.
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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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You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
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Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.
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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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Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.
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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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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
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In order to be creative, you don’t have to be original.
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Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.
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I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.
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We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?
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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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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.
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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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Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
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I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent 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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There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.
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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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If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.
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