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If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.

Ray Bradbury

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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Believe Dance Destroy Passionate Quick Story Yourself
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
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
Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.
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Gratitude Important True Worth
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
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
You’ve been put on the world to love the act of being alive.
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Act Alive Love World Yourself
Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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Love Reason Worth
If you learn only methods, you’ll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.
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Learning Motivational Positive Principle Wisdom
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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Build Courage Greatness Humor Inspirational Live Risk Way Wings Yourself
Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
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Poet Possible Story Writing
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
Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
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Deep Sanity Wisdom
The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
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Book Fools Poet Writing
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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Deep Life Moments Time
Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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Life Love Time Yourself
Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
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Celebration Fun Joy Serious Writing Yourself
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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Career Friendship Inspirational Life Reading Writing Yourself
There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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Destination Education Library Path Student Yourself
You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
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Address Learning Rejection Wrong Yourself
Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.
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Learning Let Go Life Touch
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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Alive Force Imagination Life Nature Philosophy Willing
Write a thousand words a day and in three years you’ll be a writer!
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Accomplishment Hard Work Word Writing Yourself
It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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Failure Inspirational Word Writing
An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
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Athlete Experience Preparation Quantity Run
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.
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Imagination Life Listening Love Yourself

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