If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.
RAY BRADBURYYou 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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Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.
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I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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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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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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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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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
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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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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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If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both-you must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
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Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.
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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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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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How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
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Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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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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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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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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Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
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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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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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Work is the only answer. I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn’t work, shut up and drink your gin. And when all else fails, run like hell!
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Do what you love and love what you do. Don’t do anything for money. Everything should be for love.
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