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.
RAY BRADBURYIf 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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Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.
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Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.
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Write a thousand words a day and in three years you’ll be a writer!
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All education is self-discovery.
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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.
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We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?
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Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
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Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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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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Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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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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That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
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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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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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If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we’ll become completely dark.
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Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.
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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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Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
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If you love people you criticize them, and if you don’t love them you don’t criticize them, you let them go to hell, don’t you? To help any kind of friendship, your marriage, your children, you criticize because you love.
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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
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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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The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.
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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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If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.
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