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How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.

Ray Bradbury

Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
RAY BRADBURY

Poet Possible Story Writing
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.
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Children Friendship Hell Help Kind Love Marriage People
If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
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Forget Lesson Teaching Yourself
You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.
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Effort Happiness Misery Yourself
You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.
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Simplicity Try Yourself
Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
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Inspirational Live Love Morning Stay Writing Yourself
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
Work is the only answer. I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn’t work, shut up and drink your gin. And when all else fails, run like hell!
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Failure Live Myself Rule Run Work Yourself
The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
RAY BRADBURY

Book Fools Poet Writing
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
The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It’s all crap.
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Danger Greatness Life Stupidity Yourself
Good to evil seems evil
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Deep Evil Goodness One Liner
If you learn only methods, you’ll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.
RAY BRADBURY

Learning Motivational Positive Principle Wisdom
You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
RAY BRADBURY

Build Confidence Courage Inspirational Way Wings Yourself
Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.
RAY BRADBURY

Myself Reality Thinking Understand
Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.
RAY BRADBURY

Inspirational Library Satisfaction Teacher

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