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

Ray Bradbury

The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It’s all crap.
RAY BRADBURY

Danger Greatness Life Stupidity 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
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
Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.
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Myself Reality Thinking Understand
Don’t think about things, just do them; don’t predict them, just make them.
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Action Thinking
I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
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Avoid Future Myself Try
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
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
The important thing is to be in love with something.
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Important Life Love
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
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
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
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
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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Book Burn Destroy Inspirational Life People Reading Stop Struggle Yourself
If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.
RAY BRADBURY

Career Job Yourself
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
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Acceptance Choice Deep Rejection Wisdom Writing

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