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Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it.
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
Richard Bach
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Mistakes - call them unexpected learning experiences.
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Anyone desperate enough for suicide... should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems: elope at midnight, stow away on the boat to New Zealand and start over, do what they always wanted to do but were afraid to try.
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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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I'm a writer as rarely as possible, when forced by an idea too lovely to let die unwritten
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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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Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground.
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Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
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Cherish yesterday, Dream tomorrow, Live today.
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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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Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.
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I do everything myself, from engine start to engine shutdown. In a war, I will face alone the missiles and the flak and the small-arms fire over the front lines. If I die, I will die alone.
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Like most writers, we like to find what we know and pass it along to anyone who cares. When that's done, as soon as we've said the best we can say, there's nothing else about us that's remotely interesting to anybody else, and we go back behind the walls. We can be intimate in books, we can be intimate in talks, but then we need time to be alone.
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Flyers fell a certain kinship with the sight of the earth unencrusted by humanity, they want to see it that way in one sweeping view, in reassurance that nature still exists on her own, without a chain-link fence to hold her.
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Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
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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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With every decision that anyone makes, the world changes. The decision that we give our consent to is the one that remains in our consciousness, but the one that we didn't make-that alternate world goes on in its own direction. So there's uncountable numbers of alternate us-es.
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Fear not, nor be dismayed at the appearance that is darkness, at the disguise that is evil, at the empty cloak that is death, for you have picked these for your challenges. They are stones on which you choose to whet the keen edge of your spirit.
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The big thing about writing is three commands: Have fun. Don't think. Don't care.
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Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn't make sense right away.
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