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.
RAY BRADBURYYou have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
More Ray Bradbury Quotes
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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.
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The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes. And it seems like nothing – but when you’re looking back. Well, it amounts to everything.
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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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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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Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we’ll become completely dark.
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Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
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Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.
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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 have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
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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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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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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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How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
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