Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
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.
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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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Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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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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Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
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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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We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?
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Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.
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Work is the only answer. I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn’t work, shut up and drink your gin. And when all else fails, run like hell!
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Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.
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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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If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.
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Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.
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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
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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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The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes. And it seems like nothing – but when you’re looking back. Well, it amounts to everything.
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