You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.
RAY BRADBURYDon’t think about things, just do them; don’t predict them, just make them.
More Ray Bradbury Quotes
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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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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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Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
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Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.
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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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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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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
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Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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You’ve been put on the world to love the act of being alive.
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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 best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.
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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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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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