You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
RAY BRADBURYIn order to be creative, you don’t have to be original.
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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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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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Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.
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You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.
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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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I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.
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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 enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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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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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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If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we’ll become completely dark.
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Don’t think about things, just do them; don’t predict them, just make them.
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You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
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