I’ve often been accused of being too emotional and sentimental, but I believe in honest sentiment, and the need to purge ourselves at certain times, which is ancient. Men would live at least five or six more years and not have ulcers if they could cry better.
Interpretation
Emotional expression is vital for mental health and can lead to a longer, healthier life.
Ray Bradbury emphasizes the importance of expressing emotions and sentimentality as a means to cleanse oneself emotionally. He suggests that societal constraints on male emotional expression can lead to mental and physical health issues, such as ulcers, and advocates for the therapeutic value of crying and being honest with one's feelings.
In practice
In a talk about mental health, one might say, 'As Ray Bradbury pointed out, expressing our emotions can significantly impact our well-being.'
I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)
I never went to college, so I went to the library.
There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.
I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour.
The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health.
You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
Advice? I don't offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss.
Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence. It reveals. It reveals to the aspirant that matter and spirit are one, quantity and quality are one, the immanent and the transcendent are one. It reveals that life can never be the mere existence of seventy or eighty years between birth and death, but is, rather, Eternity itself.
The only time I waste is time I spend doing something that, in my gut, I know I shouldn't. If I choose to spend time playing video games or sleeping in, then it's time well spent, because I chose to do it. I did it for a reason - to relax, to decompress or to feel good, and that was what I wanted to do.
You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself.
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