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Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?
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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I was partially raised by an aunt who was a dress designer, so I was around her studio all of my early life. I know materials. I can look through Harper's Bazaar and decide what works and what doesn't, or any other magazine, Seventeen if you wish.
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My job is to help you fall in love.
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Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.
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I have fun with ideas I play with them.
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I'm not a serious person, and I don't like serious people.
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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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The rockets set the bony meadows afire, turned rock to lava, turned wood to charcoal, transmuted water to steam, made sand and silica into green glass which lay like shattered mirrors reflecting the invasion, all about. The rockets came like drums, beating in the night. The rockets came like locusts, swarming and settling in blooms of rosy smoke.
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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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You can't try to do things you simply must do them.
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Do three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay.
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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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