Ray Bradbury Quotes

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• Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet…
• If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
• I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.
• I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.
• I have fun with ideas; I play with them.
• My business is to prevent the future.
• Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?
• Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the…
• It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.
• If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be…
• 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…
• I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves -…
• 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…
• 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…
• You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
• We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
• 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…
• 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…
• You fail only if you stop writing.
• Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

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