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I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

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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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Ray Douglas Bradbury
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