Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.
RAY BRADBURYIf 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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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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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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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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You’ve been put on the world to love the act of being alive.
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The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.
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I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
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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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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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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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If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.
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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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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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Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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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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You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
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Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.
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You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.
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Write a thousand words a day and in three years you’ll be a writer!
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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.
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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
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The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It’s all crap.
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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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Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
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I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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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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