“Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.”

—  Ray Bradbury, book Zen in the Art of Writing

Source: Zen in the Art of Writing

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American writer 1920–2012

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