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You can't try to do things you simply must do them.
Ray Bradbury
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Ray Bradbury
Age: 91 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 22
Died: 2012
Died: June 6
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Waukegan
Illinois
Ray Douglas Bradbury
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It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.
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Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head.
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Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there was it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away.
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Work is the only answer. I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut up and drink your gin. And when all else fails, run like hell!
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I love the musical form of books. It's a different way of doing things, it's very beautiful. You're able to sing things instead of saying them. So what the heck - why not do them?
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If you're reluctant to weep, you won't live a full and complete life.
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The world doesn't give a damn about you unless you do something. Those are the rules I didn't make them. If you are lazy, if you don't get the work that you love done, the world won't care if you die tomorrow and go into the grave and are gone and forgotten forever.
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The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.
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First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right.
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You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.
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Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.
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I’m ALIVE. Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don’t watch. Then all of a sudden you look and see what you’re doing and it’s the first time, really.
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I'm not a serious person, and I don't like serious people.
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God, here and there, makes madness a calling.
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If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their own ungodly manufacture.
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