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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.

Ray Bradbury

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
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Alive Force Imagination Life Nature Philosophy Willing
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
You fail only if you stop writing.
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Failure Stop Yourself
Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
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Inspirational Live Love Morning Stay Writing Yourself
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
Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.
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Myself Reality Thinking Understand
Don’t think about things, just do them; don’t predict them, just make them.
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Action Thinking
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
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Acceptance Choice Deep Rejection Wisdom Writing
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
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
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
Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
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Deep Sanity Wisdom
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
If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.
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Hide Ignorance Learning Yourself
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
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

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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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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