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Ray Bradbury

It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
RAY BRADBURY

Failure Inspirational Word Writing
If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.
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Hell Money Yourself
You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
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Address Learning Rejection Wrong Yourself
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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Care Future Live Yourself
Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.
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Inspirational Library Satisfaction Teacher
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
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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Growth Motivational Survive Work Worry Yourself
I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.
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Fantasy Leaving Listening Myself Space Taste Travel
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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Energy Excitement Ideas
You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.
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Simplicity Try Yourself
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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Believe Destroy Fall Government Happiness Hate Hope Myself Politics
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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Destroy Inspirational Reality Writing Yourself
If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.
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Hide Ignorance Learning Yourself
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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Hard Work Love Myself Practice Time True Yourself
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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Accomplishment Dream Fiction History Man Science 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
Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.
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Myself Reality Thinking Understand
All education is self-discovery.
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Discover Education One Liner
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
Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
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Fire Illusion Memories Need
It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.
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Goodness Space Stupidity
I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
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Avoid Future Myself Try
If you learn only methods, you’ll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.
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Learning Motivational Positive Principle Wisdom
Write a thousand words a day and in three years you’ll be a writer!
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Accomplishment Hard Work Word Writing Yourself
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
Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
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Deep Sanity Wisdom
Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.
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Learning Let Go Life Touch

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