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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

Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.
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Myself Reality Thinking Understand
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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Children Friendship Hell Help Kind Love Marriage People
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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Born Cry Easy Hurt Myself People Quick Reason Remember Sad World Young
Don’t think about things, just do them; don’t predict them, just make them.
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Action Thinking
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
Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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Intuition Poet Way Writing Yourself
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
Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
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Deep Sanity Wisdom
You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.
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Simplicity Try 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
There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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Destination Education Library Path Student 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
The important thing is to be in love with something.
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Important Life Love
Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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Love Reason Worth
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
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
Good to evil seems evil
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Deep Evil Goodness One Liner
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
You fail only if you stop writing.
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Failure Stop Yourself
I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
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Avoid Future Myself Try
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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Book Burn Destroy Inspirational Life People Reading Stop Struggle Yourself
Do what you love and love what you do. Don’t do anything for money. Everything should be for love.
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Love Money Yourself
Don’t worry about things. Don’t push. Just do your work and you’ll survive. The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, to be loving and to be explosive. Out of that comes everything and you grow.
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Growth Motivational Survive Work Worry Yourself
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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Afraid Darkness Fear Past Shadow
In order to be creative, you don’t have to be original.
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Creativity Original
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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