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That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

Ray Bradbury

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.
RAY BRADBURY

Beginning Crazy Death Destroy Poison Reality Writing
Don’t think about things, just do them; don’t predict them, just make them.
RAY BRADBURY

Action Thinking
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
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.
RAY BRADBURY

Imagination Life Listening Love Yourself
There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.
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Afraid Darkness Fear Past Shadow
You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.
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Effort Happiness Misery Yourself
Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
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Fire Illusion Memories Need
If you learn only methods, you’ll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.
RAY BRADBURY

Learning Motivational Positive Principle Wisdom
Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.
RAY BRADBURY

Gratitude Important True Worth
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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Book Burn People Run World
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.
RAY BRADBURY

Believe Friendship Fun Future Hell Home Leaving 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.
RAY BRADBURY

Hard Work Love Myself Practice Time True Yourself
I don’t think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don’t take the toys out of their hands, we’re fools.
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Fools Hands Men Myself Play Technology Thinking Toys
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
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
The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.
RAY BRADBURY

Believe Ideas Religion Room Stop Thinking Yourself

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