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It’s not when you start that makes your success in the world, but when you quit.
Richard Bach
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Richard Bach
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: June 23
Aircraft Pilot
Military Officer
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
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Writer
Oak Park
Illinois
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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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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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What a delighted fascination it is, to stand aside and watch our dearest friend perform on stage without us.
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It had never gotten old for him, flying. Never gone boring. Every engine start was a new adventure, guiding the spirit of a lovely machine back into life every takeoff blending his spirit with its own to do what's never been done in history, to lift away from the ground and fly.
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Know that ever about you stands the reality of love, and each moment you have the power to transform your world by what you have learned.
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How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest? She hears it breathing differently.
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Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.
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Shop for security over happiness and we buy it at that price.
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It's like a pulsar inside me. There is this great burst of energy, forcing me to write, and then the star goes quiet for a time, and I think it's gone, but it's gathering energy for another burst. And I seem to be almost unwilling participants in this.
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A writer, or a beginning writer, is faced by the huge walls of self-consciousness. Most people think, What if I say the wrong thing? What if I don't sound erudite and sophisticated? I'll be considered a fool. In time, with a lot of practice, you realize that's your foolishness is your gift.
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Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn't make sense right away.
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Does anybody learn writing, or do they just touch someone who lets them see the power of the deleted word?
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If you're always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how can your natural gifts ever emerge?
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Money is a great isolator. In fact, we don't even need to have money or make money, we only need to be perceived as having money to be isolated in the strangest ways from most of the community around us. It reaches the point where a person with money spends a great deal of time reacting to people who are reacting to the money.
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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.
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What matters is how I use what I know, every minute of every day how I use it to remember, in the midst of the game.
Richard Bach
You teach best that which you need most to learn.
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The airplane is just a bunch of sticks and wires and cloth, a tool for learning about the sky and about what kind of person I am, when I fly. An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding. Those things aren't destructable.
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Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.
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Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.
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