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If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.

Richard Bach

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Richard Bach
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: June 23
Aircraft Pilot
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Novelist
Opinion Journalist
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Oak Park
Illinois
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We love action and adventure, but we use it to go out and start wars and kill people.
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What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk?
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Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.
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Do you ever have the feeling you're a tourist on earth?
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Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but...
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The space for what you want is already filled with what you settled for instead.
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The creative, loving-something life is also the healthy one. There is healing and protection in doing what makes you happy.
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Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours. Do you think, if you say the word impossible enough times, that difficult things will suddenly become easier for you?
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Reason and intellect are opening wedges in an understanding of reality.
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If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
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Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life forms, and they call you crazy.
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Everything is exactly as it is for a reason. The crumb on your table is no mystical reminder of this morning's cookie, it is there because you have chosen not to remove it. No exceptions.
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It took time to learn that the hard thing about writing is to let the story write itself, while one sits at the typewriter and does as little thinking as possible. It happened over and over again, and the beginner learned - when you start puzzling over an idea, and slowing down on the keys, the writing gets worse and worse.
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We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture... We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it into gravel, we can shape it into glory.
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