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If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.
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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Illinois
Ray Douglas Bradbury
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At the top of your lungs, shout and listen to the echoes. You must live life at the top of your voice!
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You're insane! I won't argue that point.
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Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings.
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