we have gifted the world with our best

14th April 2017 | for Creatives | creating isn't easy, the successful artist, writing, KEEP CREATING, Ray Bradbury, the creative life  |       

"How does one get lost?  Through incorrect aims, as I have said.  Through wanting literary fame too quickly.  From wanting money too soon.  If only we could remember, fame and money are gifts given us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths."

— Ray Bradbury

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