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You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.

Ray Bradbury

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.
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Fall Inspirational Trust Wings Yourself
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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Hard Work Love Myself Practice Time True Yourself
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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Career Friendship Inspirational Life Reading Writing Yourself
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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Deep Life Moments Time
Creativity is a continual surprise.
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Art Creativity One Liner
The important thing is to be in love with something.
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Important Life Love
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.
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Creativity Enemy Myself Thinking
Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
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Deep Sanity Wisdom
It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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Failure Inspirational Word Writing
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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Destroy Inspirational Reality Writing Yourself
Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
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Inspirational Live Love Morning Stay Writing Yourself
You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.
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Effort Happiness Misery Yourself
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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Beautiful Inspirational Ourselves Philosophy Quiet Spiritual Writing
If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.
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Career Job Yourself
If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.
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Hell Money Yourself
Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
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Celebration Fun Joy Serious Writing Yourself
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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Fantasy Leaving Listening Myself Space Taste Travel
It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.
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Goodness Space Stupidity
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
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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Book Burn People Run World
I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.
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Learning Myself
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
That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
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Animal Creativity Greatness Ideas Secret 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
You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.
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Simplicity Try Yourself
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
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Acceptance Choice Deep Rejection Wisdom Writing
Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.
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Gratitude Important True Worth

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