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.
RAY BRADBURYI 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.
More Ray Bradbury Quotes
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Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.
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An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
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Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
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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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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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If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we’ll become completely dark.
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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.
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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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The important thing is to be in love with something.
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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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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.
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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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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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