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.
RAY BRADBURYWe 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?
More Ray Bradbury Quotes
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Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.
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Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.
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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
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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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Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
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Good to evil seems evil
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A life’s work should be based on love.
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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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I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.
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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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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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I don’t believe in government. I hate politics. I’m against it. And I hope that sometime this fall, we can destroy part of our government, and next year destroy even more of it. The less government, the happier I will be.
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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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The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
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Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.
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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. 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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Do what you love and love what you do. Don’t do anything for money. Everything should be for love.
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The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It’s all crap.
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Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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All education is self-discovery.
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The important thing is to be in love with something.
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In order to be creative, you don’t have to be original.
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I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent 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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