You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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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How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
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All education is self-discovery.
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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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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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You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
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The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.
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If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.
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Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
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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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An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
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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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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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If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.
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Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.
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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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