You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.
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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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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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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An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
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Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
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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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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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I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
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Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
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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 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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Don’t think about things, just do them; don’t predict them, just make them.
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We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
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Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
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You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
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