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.
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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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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 must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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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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The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It’s all crap.
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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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You knew the sweetness of now, now, TONIGHT! who cares for tomorrow, tomorrow is nothing, yesterday is over and done, tonight live, tonight!
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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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That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
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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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Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.
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You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
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Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
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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 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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Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
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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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Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.
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Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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The important thing is to be in love with something.
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I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
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If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.
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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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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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