We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.
RAY BRADBURYYou don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
More Ray Bradbury Quotes
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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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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.
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The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.
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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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A life’s work should be based on love.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Too late, I found you can’t wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.
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Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.
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