The Lord is not serious. In fact, it is a little hard to know just what else He is except loving. And love has to do with humor, doesn't it? For you cannot love someone unless you put up with him, can you? And you cannot put up with someone constantly unless you can laugh at him. Isn't that true? And certainly we are rediculous little animals wallowing in the fudge bowl, and God must love us all the more because we appeal to his humor.


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You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your be...
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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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There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit ma...
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Where would you like to go, what would you really like to do with your life?

See Istanbu...
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Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them wh...
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You'll be found, your nickels, dimes and Indian-heads fused by electroplating. Abe Lincolns melted i...
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There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like...
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Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's...
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You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers alwa...
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Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.
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Orwell was dealing with communism and his disillusionment with communism in Russia and what he saw t...
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Sunsets are loved because they vanish.

Flowers are loved because they go.

The ...
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Why love the woman who is your wife? Her nose breathes in the air of a world that I know; therefore ...
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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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Sunsets we always liked because they only happen once and go away."
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No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now.
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I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down...
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The things that you do should be things that you love, and things that you love should be things tha...
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I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits ...
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When I was a boy in the midwest I used to go out and look at the stars at night and wonder about the...
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There was a silly damn bird called a phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a ...
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Le cose che voi cercate, Montag, sono su questa terra, ma il solo modo per cui l’uomo medio potrà...
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Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still wr...
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Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind ...
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First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.
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I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.
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Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is ...
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Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. ...
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A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, i...
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And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn’t crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I...
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I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't hav...
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If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned ...
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One day many years ago a man walked along and stood in the sound of the ocean on a cold sunless shor...
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Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially,...
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We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we'v...
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I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.
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That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doi...
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The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.
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There were only the great diamonds and sapphires and emerald mists and velvet inks of space, with Go...
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Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born tha...
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Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow hi...
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The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or on...
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If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd ne...
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Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow hi...
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Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?
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Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
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You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers ...
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You fail only if you stop writing
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Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious...
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