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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.

Ray Bradbury

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.
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Career Job Yourself
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
You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.
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Simplicity Try Yourself
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
Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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Love Reason Worth
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 can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.
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Effort Happiness Misery Yourself
If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.
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Hell Money Yourself
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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Destroy Inspirational Reality Writing Yourself
The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes. And it seems like nothing – but when you’re looking back. Well, it amounts to everything.
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Deep Life Moments Time
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
Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.
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Gratitude Important True Worth
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
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
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
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

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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