You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.
RAY BRADBURYIf 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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A life’s work should be based on love.
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There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we’ll become completely dark.
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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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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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Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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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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In order to be creative, you don’t have to be original.
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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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If you learn only methods, you’ll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.
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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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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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That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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