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.
RAY BRADBURYStuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
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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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We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.
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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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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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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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We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?
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You fail only if you stop writing.
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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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You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
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Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
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You’ve been put on the world to love the act of being alive.
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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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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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Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.
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If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.
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I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
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Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
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I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
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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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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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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.
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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 must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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