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I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world.

Richard Bach

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Richard Bach
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: June 23
Aircraft Pilot
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Novelist
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Oak Park
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I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.
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Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideas without being sure they’ll work.
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There are two tests that we [writers] have for all of our writing: So What? and Who Cares? There is an answer to both. The answer to Who Cares is that a reader cares, if the writing is good. The answer to So What is that these ideas give us completely new understanding, change our sense of who we [people] are and why we're here [on this planet].
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A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.
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Mistakes - call them unexpected learning experiences.
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Wrong turns are as important as right turns. More important, sometimes.
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Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.
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What was the question? ...Oh. Where do I get my crazy ideas? Answer: sleep-fairy, walk-fairy, shower-fairy. Book-fairy. And in these last few years, from my wife. Now when I have questions I ask her and she tells me the answer. If you haven't already, I'd suggest you want to find your soulmate, as soon as you can. Next question?
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How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could we say to the us we were.
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I don't think any of my books tell the reader anything new. But they do remind, in a time that is strident and screeching about the limitations of this world and all the trouble we can get ourselves into.
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If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.
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In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.
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Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love.
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Learning is finding out what you already know.
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The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid.We fear we will not find love,and when we find it we fear we'll lose it. We fear that if we don't have love we will be unhappy.
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Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a pretty solemn bunch of followers.
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You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.
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Heaven isnot a place, and it isnot atime.Heaven isbeing perfect.
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You choose, you live the consequences. Every yes, no, maybe, creates the school you call your personal experience.
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A drug for everything is madness. Legal or not, prescribed or not, over-counter under-counter bought for blood on street-corners-every pill separates us from knowing our own completion and from being taught by what's true.
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