We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.
RAY BRADBURYSometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
More Ray Bradbury Quotes
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It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.
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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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You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.
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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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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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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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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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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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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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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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Write a thousand words a day and in three years you’ll be a writer!
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The important thing is to be in love with something.
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Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.
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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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I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.
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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 books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
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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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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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Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.
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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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That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
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You fail only if you stop writing.
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Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I’m one of them.
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The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It’s all crap.
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