We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
RAY BRADBURYI don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
More Ray Bradbury Quotes
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There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.
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Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.
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You’ve been put on the world to love the act of being alive.
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Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.
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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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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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You fail only if you stop writing.
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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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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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Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
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You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.
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Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.
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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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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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Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.
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