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I do not enjoy writing at all. If I can turn my back on an idea, out there in the dark, if I can avoid opening the door to it, I won't even reach for a pencil.

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
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Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.
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If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours if they don't they never were.
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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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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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Heaven isnot a place, and it isnot atime.Heaven isbeing perfect.
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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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Learning is finding out what you already know.
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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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My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.
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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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The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've got responsibilities.
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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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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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The man who flies an airplane ... must believe in the unseen.
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Live enough of what you've always dreamed of doing, and there's no room left for feeling bad.
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Cherish yesterday, Dream tomorrow, Live today.
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Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again
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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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Judge not by the form of the messenger, but the form of the message.
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In order to win, you must expect to win.
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