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Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.

Ray Bradbury

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
Do what you love and love what you do. Don’t do anything for money. Everything should be for love.
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Love Money Yourself
I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.
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Learning Myself
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
It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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Failure Inspirational Word Writing
Don’t think about things, just do them; don’t predict them, just make them.
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Action Thinking
Get 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.
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Believe Friendship Fun Future Hell Home Leaving Yourself
Good to evil seems evil
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Deep Evil Goodness One Liner
Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
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Poet Possible Story Writing
Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.
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Gratitude Important True Worth
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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Born Cry Easy Hurt Myself People Quick Reason Remember Sad World Young
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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Morning Myself Pieces Togetherness
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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Beautiful Inspirational Ourselves Philosophy Quiet Spiritual Writing
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
If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.
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Hide Ignorance Learning 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
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
Creativity is a continual surprise.
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Art Creativity One Liner
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
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
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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Inspirational Live Love Morning Stay Writing Yourself
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
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Acceptance Choice Deep Rejection Wisdom Writing
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
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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Imagination Life Listening Love 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
Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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Love Reason Worth

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