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You’ve been put on the world to love the act of being alive.

Ray Bradbury

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
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 takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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Failure Inspirational Word Writing
I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
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Avoid Future Myself Try
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
Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.
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Fall Inspirational Trust Wings Yourself
Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.
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Inspirational Library Satisfaction Teacher
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.
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Happiness Missing Need
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
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
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
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
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
Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
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Fire Illusion Memories Need
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
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

You’ve been put on the world to love the act of being alive.

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