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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.

Ray Bradbury

There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.
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Afraid Darkness Fear Past Shadow
Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
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Deep Sanity Wisdom
I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
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Avoid Future Myself Try
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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Believe Ideas Religion Room Stop Thinking 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
Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.
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Danger Defeat Media Ourselves Victory
The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
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Book Fools Poet Writing
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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Book Burn People Run World
There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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Destination Education Library Path Student Yourself
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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Beautiful Death Dream Eyes Inspirational Life Pay See Travel World
It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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Failure Inspirational Word Writing
You’ve been put on the world to love the act of being alive.
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Act Alive Love World 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
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
Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
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Fire Illusion Memories Need
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.
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Creativity Enemy Myself Thinking

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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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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