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You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Ray Bradbury

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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Alive Force Imagination Life Nature Philosophy Willing
In order to be creative, you don’t have to be original.
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Creativity Original
If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.
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Hell Money Yourself
I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
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Avoid Future Myself Try
Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
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Deep Sanity Wisdom
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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Believe Friendship Fun Future Hell Home Leaving Yourself
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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Morning Myself Pieces Togetherness
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
Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
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Celebration Fun Joy Serious Writing Yourself
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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Energy Excitement Ideas
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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Beautiful Inspirational Ourselves Philosophy Quiet Spiritual Writing
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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Beginning Crazy Death Destroy Poison Reality Writing
If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.
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Career Job 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
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
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
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Acceptance Choice Deep Rejection Wisdom Writing

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