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The blizzard doesn't last forever; it just seems so.
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...I mean, you don't just love people, you must LOVE them with exclamation points.
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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.
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So it was the hand that started it all . . . His hands had been infected, and soon it would be his arms . . . His hands were ravenous.
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Disbelief is catching. It rubs off on people.
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The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot.
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No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it.
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If Blake said that, said Father Brian, he never lived in Dublin.
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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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Don't they get afraid, then?" "They have a religion for that.
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We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.
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If someone sends you a love letter you've got to answer back.
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I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.
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Life should be touched, not strangled.
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Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here.
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The whole concept of higher education is negated unless the sole criterion used to determine if students qualify is the grades they score on standardized tests. Education is purely an issue of learning - we can no longer afford to have it polluted by damn politics. Leave pollution up to the politicians
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In order to be creative, you don't have to be original.
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I wonder how many men, hiding their youngness, rise as I do, Saturday mornings, filled with the hope that Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam and Daffy Duck will be there waiting as our one true always and forever salvation?
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Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All because of science fictional inventions.
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I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.
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The things that you do should be things that you love, and things that you love should be things that you do.
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I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.
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Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?
Ray Bradbury