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Ray Bradbury Inspirational Quotes (431)

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My characters talk to one another, and when it reaches a certain pitch of excitement I jump out of bed and run and trap them before they are gone.
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Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight.
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A single face turned upward toward all Time One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace.
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All of my writing is God-given.
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No use going to class unless you go to the library.
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For about 150 days a year in Venice, the sun doesn't show through the mist until noon.
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My business is to prevent the future.
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I don’t write things to benefit the world. If it happens that they do, swell. I didn’t set out to do that. I set out to have a hell of a lot of fun.
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The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.
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Men are nuts. Young men are crazy. We all love toys. I'm toy oriented. I write about toys. I've got a lot of toys. Hundreds of things. But computers are toys, and men like to mess around with smart dumb things. They feel creative.
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There is only one type of story in the world-your story.
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Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry.
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Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe when it dies?
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Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.
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Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.
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Time is so strange and life is twice as strange.
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I'm trying to teach people of all ages to, number one: how to criticize, how to offer creative analysis on top of that, how to try to build things in a new direction and how to compliment people when the thing gets done.
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God, here and there, makes madness a calling.
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Today we haved touched Mars. There is life on Mars, and it us us-extensions of our eyes in all directions, extensions of our mind, extensions of our heart and soul have touched Mars today. That's the message to look for there: We are on Mars. We are the Martians!
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Evil has only the power we give it.
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How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike.
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It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.
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The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen, and the sun burnt Time, that meant everything burnt!
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First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him.
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