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.
RAY BRADBURYGet 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.
More Ray Bradbury Quotes
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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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There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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Don’t think about things, just do them; don’t predict them, just make them.
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Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.
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Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
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Do what you love and love what you do. Don’t do anything for money. Everything should be for love.
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Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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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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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.
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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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The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
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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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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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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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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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If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we’ll become completely dark.
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You fail only if you stop writing.
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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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Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow 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 must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
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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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The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.
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