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Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Ray Bradbury

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Ray Bradbury
Age: 91 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 22
Died: 2012
Died: June 6
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
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Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Waukegan
Illinois
Ray Douglas Bradbury
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People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it.
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I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the bushel and the peck, then they'll become better writers - to learn how to capsualize things and present them in metaphorical form.
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We're a free society we've got television. We have radio. We have newspapers. We have the videocassette, which is coming into play. These are new freedoms.
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When the wind is right, a faint odor of kerosene is exhaled from Senator McCarthy.
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Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.
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I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.
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Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.
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It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.
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The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that nobody wanted, why I do short stories and novels and screenplays... is so I will have new ways of failing. This means becoming a student again.
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I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.
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In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize.
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It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.
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Venice was and is full of lost places where people put up for sale the last worn bits of their souls, hoping no one will buy.
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There is only one type of story in the world-your story.
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You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.
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Remember, with writing, what you’re looking for is just one person to come up and tell you, 'I love you for what you do.'
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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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I'm not anyone, I'm just myself whatever I am, I am something, and now I'm something you can't help.
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What do you do, go around trying everything once?' he asked. 'Sometimes twice.
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