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Ray Bradbury
Age: 91 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 22
Died: 2012
Died: June 6
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Waukegan
Illinois
Ray Douglas Bradbury
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And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again.
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Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can nowadays, is happier than any man who tries to slide-rule, measure, and equate the universe, which just won't be measured or equated without making man feel bestial and lonely.
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Your mind's always juggling, isn't it?-mirrors, torches, plates.
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I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.
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See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream.
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Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.
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Sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.
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How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike.
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There was her face, like a summer peach, beautiful and warm, and the light of the candles reflected in her dark eyes. [He] held his breath. The entire world waited and held its breath.
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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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I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.
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Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.
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Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.
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He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out.
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What are you up to now? I'm sill crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it.
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A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?
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A life's work should be based on love.
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You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
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The sun rose yellow as a lemon.The sky was round and blue.The birds looped clear water songs in the air.Will and Jim leaned from their windows.Nothing had changed.Except the look in Jim's eyes.Last night. . . said Will. Did or didn't it happen?
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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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