I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
RAY BRADBURYI 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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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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Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
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The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes. And it seems like nothing – but when you’re looking back. Well, it amounts to everything.
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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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 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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That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
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Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.
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Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
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The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It’s all crap.
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Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.
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You fail only if you stop writing.
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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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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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