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If you're always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how can your natural gifts ever emerge?

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
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Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.
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Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
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Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a pretty solemn bunch of followers.
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