The important thing is to be in love with something.
RAY BRADBURYStuff 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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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 can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.
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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.
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You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
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There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.
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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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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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How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
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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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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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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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You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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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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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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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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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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We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.
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In order to be creative, you don’t have to be original.
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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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Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
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Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.
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