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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.

Ray Bradbury

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
RAY BRADBURY

Effort Growth Independence Inspirational Learning Wings
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
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.
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Happiness Missing Need
If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both-you must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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Beginning Crazy Death Destroy Poison Reality Writing
Love what you do and do what you love. Don’t listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.
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Imagination Life Listening Love Yourself
The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.
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Believe Ideas Religion Room Stop Thinking Yourself
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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Growth Motivational Survive Work Worry Yourself
Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
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Poet Possible Story Writing
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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Failure Live Myself Rule Run Work Yourself
If you learn only methods, you’ll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.
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Learning Motivational Positive Principle Wisdom
Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
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Fire Illusion Memories Need
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 Enemy Simplicity Thinking Try
Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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Life Love Time Yourself
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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Fools Hands Men Myself Play Technology Thinking Toys
There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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Destination Education Library Path Student Yourself
If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.
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Hell Money Yourself

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