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Anybody who's ever mattered, anybody who's ever been happy, anybody who's ever given any gift into the world has been a divinely selfish soul, living for his own best interest. No exceptions.

Richard Bach

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Richard Bach
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: June 23
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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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You are life, inventing form. No more can you die on sword or years than you can die on doorways through which you walk, one room into another. Every room gives its word for you to speak, every passage its song for you to sing.
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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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A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.
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Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
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Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are.
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Cherish yesterday, Dream tomorrow, Live today.
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Good and evil are not what our parents told us, not what our church tells us, or our country, not what anybody else tells us! All of us decide good and evil for ourselves, automatically, by choosing what we want to do!
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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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Reputation is what people think you are. Character is who you really are. Take care of your character and your reputation will take care of itself. The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
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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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There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.
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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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The space for what you want is already filled with what you settled for instead.
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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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You don't tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.
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And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch of a human hand, and join their life with the pilot's own.
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Isn't it strange how much we know if only we ask ourselves instead of somebody else.
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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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