You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
RAY BRADBURYThere 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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The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.
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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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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 don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.
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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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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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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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I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.
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Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.
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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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How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
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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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Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
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Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.
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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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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
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Write a thousand words a day and in three years you’ll be a writer!
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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 you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.
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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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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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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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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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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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