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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.

Richard Bach

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Richard Bach
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: June 23
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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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The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
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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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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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Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
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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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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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Then be sure of one thing: The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have. The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.
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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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What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk?
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This kind of thinking, he found, is not the way to make one's self popular with other birds. Even his parents were dismayed as Jonathan spent whole days alone, making hundreds of low-level glides, experimenting.
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You seek problems because you need their gifts.
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The world is a dream, you say, and it’s lovely, sometimes. Sunset. Clouds. Sky.” “No. The image is a dream. The beauty is real. Can you see the difference?
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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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You teach best that which you need most to learn.
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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.
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He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all
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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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