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 BRADBURYThe 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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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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Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
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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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You fail only if you stop writing.
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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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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You’ve been put on the world to love the act of being alive.
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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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The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.
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Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.
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Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
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If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.
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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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It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.
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Love what you do and do what you love. Don’t listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.
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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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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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If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.
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You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
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I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.
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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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Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
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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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I don’t think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don’t take the toys out of their hands, we’re fools.
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