Ray Bradbury Quotes

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
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
Good to evil seems evil
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Deep Evil Goodness One Liner
If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we’ll become completely dark.
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Complete Darkness Ourselves Soul Try
Creativity is a continual surprise.
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Art Creativity One Liner
You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.
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Effort Happiness Misery Yourself
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
You fail only if you stop writing.
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Failure Stop Yourself
You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
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Build Confidence Courage Inspirational Way Wings Yourself
I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
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Avoid Future Myself Try
There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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Destination Education Library Path Student Yourself
It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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Failure Inspirational Word 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
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
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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Build Courage Greatness Humor Inspirational Live Risk Way Wings Yourself
You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.
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Simplicity Try Yourself
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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Afraid Darkness Fear Past Shadow
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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Hard Work Love Myself Practice Time True Yourself
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
You’ve been put on the world to love the act of being alive.
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Act Alive Love World Yourself
An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
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Athlete Experience Preparation Quantity Run
If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.
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Career Job Yourself
If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.
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Hell Money Yourself
Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.
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Accomplishment Dream Fiction History Man Science Yourself
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
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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Destroy Inspirational Reality Writing Yourself

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