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.
RAY BRADBURYDon’t think about things, just do them; don’t predict them, just make them.
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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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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.
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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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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.
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If you love people you criticize them, and if you don’t love them you don’t criticize them, you let them go to hell, don’t you? To help any kind of friendship, your marriage, your children, you criticize because you love.
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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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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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Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
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I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
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An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
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If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we’ll become completely dark.
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Work is the only answer. I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn’t work, shut up and drink your gin. And when all else fails, run like hell!
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