Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
RAY BRADBURYIf God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
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Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
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I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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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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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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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
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Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.
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The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
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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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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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A life’s work should be based on love.
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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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The important thing is to be in love with something.
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There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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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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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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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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I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.
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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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Write a thousand words a day and in three years you’ll be a writer!
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Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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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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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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Don’t think about things, just do them; don’t predict them, just make them.
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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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