If you love people you criticize them, and if you don’t love them you don’t criticize them, you let them go to hell, don’t you? To help any kind of friendship, your marriage, your children, you criticize because you love.
RAY BRADBURYDon’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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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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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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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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You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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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 can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.
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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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Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
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Write a thousand words a day and in three years you’ll be a writer!
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You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.
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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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You’ve been put on the world to love the act of being alive.
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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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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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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