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.
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
There's small choice in rotten apples.
They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad
We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world.
Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism. _x000D_ _x000D_ Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.
No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.
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