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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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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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Ideas
Unwritten
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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.
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If you're always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how can your natural gifts ever emerge?
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Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.
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The airplane is just a bunch of sticks and wires and cloth, a tool for learning about the sky and about what kind of person I am, when I fly. An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding. Those things aren't destructable.
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Rebuilding us. Isn't that what the spirit requires, when we climb over the wreckage of our lives, sometimes, we go on to make our lives our own affirmation? We are perfect expressions of perfect Love, here and now. There is no permanent injury.
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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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A moment later Jonathan's body wavered in the air, shimmering, and began to go transparent. Don't let them spread silly rumors about me, or make me a god. O.K., Fletch? I'm a seagull. I like to fly, maybe...
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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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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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The big thing about writing is three commands: Have fun. Don't think. Don't care.
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All of us are called by something in this world that attracts us. And it doesn't matter what it is - you can be an engine mechanic or an aviator or you can be someone who loves their flower garden or the world of commerce or sailboats.
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We love action and adventure, but we use it to go out and start wars and kill people.
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Learning is finding out what you already know.
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The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves.
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Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.
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The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've got responsibilities.
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Books arent written on whim or promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until you get them in print, and even then writings a last resort, a desperate ransom you pay to get your life back.
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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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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.
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