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.
RAY BRADBURYSome 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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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.
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Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
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You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
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The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It’s all crap.
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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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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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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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That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
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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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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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Write a thousand words a day and in three years you’ll be a writer!
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Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.
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Good to evil seems evil
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Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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A life’s work should be based on love.
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If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.
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I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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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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The important thing is to be in love with something.
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You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
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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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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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Don’t think about things, just do them; don’t predict them, just make them.
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We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.
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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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