But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.
- Ray Bradbury
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See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream.
That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
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