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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

You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.
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Effort Happiness Misery 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
Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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Intuition Poet Way Writing Yourself
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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Book Burn People Run World
Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.
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Inspirational Library Satisfaction Teacher
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
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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Destroy Inspirational Reality Writing Yourself
We are the witnesses to the miracle. We are put here by creation, by God….We’re here to be the audience to the magnificent. It is our job to celebrate.
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Audience Celebration Creation God Job Spiritual
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
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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Believe Destroy Fall Government Happiness Hate Hope Myself Politics
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.
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Happiness Missing Need
Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.
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Energy Excitement Ideas
It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.
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Goodness Space Stupidity
You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.
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Simplicity Try Yourself
If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
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Forget Lesson Teaching Yourself
Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
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Fire Illusion Memories Need

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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