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“We love action and adventure, but we use it to go out and start wars and kill people.”

Quote by Richard Bach

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Richard Bach is an American writer known for his profound philosophical thoughts and allegorical stories. His work 'Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah' has become a beloved classic, inspiring many to seek self-realization and the meaning of life. more

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“It doesn't matter whether they [beloved ones] are on this planet or not on this planet anymore. Once something is bound by love, as long as that love exists, there is nothing that can separate us. There is the appearance of separation, but the heart, it always treasures and values that.”

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“When one individual writer sings her song of beauty, she changes the lives of a million others.”

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“We [people] have the power to destroy ourselves as well as the environment. As a species we love what I'd call brinks-person-ship, going right to the edge of disaster and somehow managing to pull back and recover. But my bet is still on the creative and playful and positive in the species. I think we will manage to survive and gradually turn things around.”

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“I don't think any of my books tell the reader anything new. But they do remind, in a time that is strident and screeching about the limitations of this world and all the trouble we can get ourselves into.”

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Author:Richard Bach

“Like most writers, we like to find what we know and pass it along to anyone who cares. When that's done, as soon as we've said the best we can say, there's nothing else about us that's remotely interesting to anybody else, and we go back behind the walls. We can be intimate in books, we can be intimate in talks, but then we need time to be alone.”

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“The books remind us that way down deep in our hearts, part of us knows that we are creatures of light and we cannot be touched or destroyed by anything made out of atoms or destroyed at all - that light is indestructible. And we may reflect that and express that in multiple trillions of discrete ways, but nevertheless, that indestructible sense of joyful capacity to express life and express love is always there.”

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“In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.”

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Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway

“It's like a pulsar inside me. There is this great burst of energy, forcing me to write, and then the star goes quiet for a time, and I think it's gone, but it's gathering energy for another burst. And I seem to be almost unwilling participants in this.”

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“Individuals somehow are led to find my books at times that are important to them. The mail that I get very, very often will say, "I was at a difficult time in my life, and someone gave me a copy."”

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“My way of writing a book is completely disorganized - to hurl myself at the problem, over and over.”

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Author:Richard Bach