We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.
RAY BRADBURYI 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.
More Ray Bradbury Quotes
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The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.
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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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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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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
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Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
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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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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 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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Write a thousand words a day and in three years you’ll be a writer!
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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.
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Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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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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I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
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