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 BRADBURYIn order to be creative, you don’t have to be original.
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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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We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?
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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 someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.
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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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I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.
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Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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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 God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget 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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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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All education is self-discovery.
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The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
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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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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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