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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.

Richard Bach

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Richard Bach
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: June 23
Aircraft Pilot
Military Officer
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Philosopher
Prosaist
Writer
Oak Park
Illinois
Richard Bach
Respect
Privacy
Without
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Loneliness
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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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Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
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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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We think, sometimes, there’s not a dragon left. Not one brave knight, not a single princess gliding through secret forests... What a pleasure to be wrong. Princesses, knights, enchantments and dragons, mystery and adventure... not only are they here-and-now, they’re all that ever lived on earth!
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The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine to match his own.
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Just be who you are, calm and clear and bright. Automatically, as we shine who we are, asking ourselves every minute is this what I really want to do, doing it only when we answer yes, automatically that turns away those who have nothing to learn from who we are and attracts those who do, and from whom we have to learn, as well.
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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 we believe that we're separated from someone, though they stand in the same room with us, we're separated. If we believe that we're together, if we believe that they are with us, if we listen through our inner senses, there's a chance we'll hear.
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We [Americans] are game-playing, fun-loving creatures we are the otters of the universe.
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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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He who argues for his limitations gets to keep them
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The man who flies an airplane ... must believe in the unseen.
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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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Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground.
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My way of writing a book is completely disorganized - to hurl myself at the problem, over and over.
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For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind a universe.
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We [people] have a teacher! The teacher is ourselves! We already know everything we need to know - our challenge is to discover that we know it. Turning to gurus, I think, we become guru-dependent, no different from drug-dependent, alcohol-dependent - needing an outside force to control our lives.
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The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
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Fail at love, and the other tests don't matter.
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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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