Ray Bradbury Quotes

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
Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.
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Inspirational Library Satisfaction Teacher
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
If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.
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Hide Ignorance Learning Yourself
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
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
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
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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Failure Live Myself Rule Run Work Yourself
Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.
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Career Friendship Inspirational Life Reading 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
Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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Intuition Poet Way Writing Yourself
Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.
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Gratitude Important True Worth
If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
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Forget Lesson Teaching 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
Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.
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Danger Defeat Media Ourselves Victory
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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Inspirational Live Love Morning Stay Writing Yourself
All education is self-discovery.
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Discover Education One Liner
Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
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Deep Sanity 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
The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It’s all crap.
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Danger Greatness Life Stupidity 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 enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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Difficult Enjoyment Live Philosophy Positive Thinking 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
It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.
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Goodness Space Stupidity
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
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Acceptance Choice Deep Rejection Wisdom Writing
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.
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Creativity Enemy Myself Thinking
Get rid of those friends of yours who make fun of you and don’t believe in you. And when you leave here tonight, go home, make a phone call and fire them. Anyone that doesn’t believe in you and your future, to hell with them.
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Believe Friendship Fun Future Hell Home Leaving Yourself

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