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That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

Ray Bradbury

There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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Destination Education Library Path Student 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
I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
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Avoid Future Myself Try
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
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.
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Creativity Enemy Myself Thinking
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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Afraid Darkness Fear Past Shadow
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
If you learn only methods, you’ll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.
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Learning Motivational Positive Principle Wisdom
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
Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I’m one of them.
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Born Cry Easy Hurt Myself People Quick Reason Remember Sad World Young
Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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Love Reason Worth
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
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.
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Happiness Missing Need
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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Book Burn Destroy Inspirational Life People Reading Stop Struggle Yourself
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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Fall Independent Inspirational Perfection Wait
Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.
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Gratitude Important True Worth
You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.
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Effort Happiness Misery Yourself
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
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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Destroy Inspirational Reality Writing 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
Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
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Poet Possible Story Writing
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
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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Deep Life Moments Time
You knew the sweetness of now, now, TONIGHT! who cares for tomorrow, tomorrow is nothing, yesterday is over and done, tonight live, tonight!
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Care Future Live Yourself
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
If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.
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Hell Money Yourself
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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Growth Motivational Survive Work Worry Yourself

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