I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
RAY BRADBURYToo 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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Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
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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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I don’t believe in government. I hate politics. I’m against it. And I hope that sometime this fall, we can destroy part of our government, and next year destroy even more of it. The less government, the happier I will be.
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You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
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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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Don’t think about things, just do them; don’t predict them, just make them.
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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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If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we’ll become completely dark.
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Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.
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Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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In order to be creative, you don’t have to be original.
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Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.
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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 important thing is to be in love with something.
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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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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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Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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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.
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You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.
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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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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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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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There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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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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If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.
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Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.
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