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.
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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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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It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.
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Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.
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Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
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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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The important thing is to be in love with something.
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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
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You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.
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I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
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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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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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If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.
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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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Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.
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Write a thousand words a day and in three years you’ll be a writer!
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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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Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.
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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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Good to evil seems evil
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The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.
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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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There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
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