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You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Ray Bradbury

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.
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Beginning Best Experience Ideas Inspirational Life Possible Romance Science
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 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
Love what you do and do what you love. Don’t listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.
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Imagination Life Listening Love Yourself
It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.
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Goodness Space Stupidity
I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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Design Ideas Myself Need Wake Up Writing
Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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Intuition Poet Way Writing Yourself
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
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
If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both-you must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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Beginning Crazy Death Destroy Poison Reality Writing
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.
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Creativity Enemy Myself Thinking
I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
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Avoid Future Myself Try
Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
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Deep Sanity Wisdom
The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It’s all crap.
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Danger Greatness Life Stupidity 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
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

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