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Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.

Ray Bradbury

You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
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Build Confidence Courage Inspirational Way Wings Yourself
Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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Love Reason Worth
Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.
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Learning Let Go Life Touch
That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
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Animal Creativity Greatness Ideas Secret Yourself
Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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Life Love Time Yourself
Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.
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Fall Inspirational Trust Wings Yourself
I don’t think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don’t take the toys out of their hands, we’re fools.
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Fools Hands Men Myself Play Technology Thinking Toys
Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
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Celebration Fun Joy Serious Writing Yourself
How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
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Creativity Failure Ideas Ourselves Success Work Writing
Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
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Effort Growth Independence Inspirational Learning Wings
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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Believe Dance Destroy Passionate Quick Story Yourself
You’ve been put on the world to love the act of being alive.
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Act Alive Love World Yourself
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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Alive Force Imagination Life Nature Philosophy Willing
It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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Failure Inspirational Word Writing
If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.
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Hide Ignorance Learning Yourself
You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.
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Simplicity Try Yourself
Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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Love Reason Worth
Get rid of those friends of yours who make fun of you and don’t believe in you. And when you leave here tonight, go home, make a phone call and fire them. Anyone that doesn’t believe in you and your future, to hell with them.
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Believe Friendship Fun Future Hell Home Leaving Yourself
In order to be creative, you don’t have to be original.
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Creativity Original
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.
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Creativity Enemy Simplicity Thinking Try
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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Morning Myself Pieces Togetherness
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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Fantasy Leaving Listening Myself Space Taste Travel
Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.
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Inspirational Library Satisfaction Teacher
You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.
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Effort Happiness Misery Yourself
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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Believe Ideas Religion Room Stop Thinking Yourself
You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
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Address Learning Rejection Wrong Yourself
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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Hard Work Love Myself Practice Time True Yourself

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