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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.

Ray Bradbury

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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Alive Force Imagination Life Nature Philosophy Willing
Don’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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Creativity Enemy Simplicity Thinking Try
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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Fall Independent Inspirational Perfection Wait
If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both-you must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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Beginning Crazy Death Destroy Poison Reality Writing
I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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Design Ideas Myself Need Wake Up Writing
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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Beautiful Death Dream Eyes Inspirational Life Pay See Travel World
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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Alone Important Need Reality
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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Believe Dance Destroy Passionate Quick Story Yourself
Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.
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Myself Reality Thinking Understand
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
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
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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Build Courage Greatness Humor Inspirational Live Risk Way Wings Yourself
If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we’ll become completely dark.
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Complete Darkness Ourselves Soul Try
You fail only if you stop writing.
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Failure Stop Yourself
Creativity is a continual surprise.
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Art Creativity One Liner
The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
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Book Fools Poet Writing

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