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My goal is to entertain myself and others.

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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Life should be touched, not strangled.
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Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.
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We're going to become the martians when we land there. When we explore and build communities, we become the martians. That's a wonderful destiny for all of us.
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We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.
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I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.
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Can't you recognize the human in the inhuman?
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A book is a loaded gun.
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I don't like being up high. It took me three days to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
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But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself-- ~Something Wicked This Way Comes
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Disbelief is catching. It rubs off on people.
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And some day well remember so much that well build the biggest goddam steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in and cover it up.
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All flesh is one: what matter scores Or color of the suit Or if the helmet glints with blue or gold? All is one bold achievement, All is fine spring-found-again-in-autumn day When juices run in antelopes along our blood, And green our flag, forever green...
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Comic strips introduced me to metaphors. They are pure metaphor, so you learn how to tell a story with symbols, which is a very valuable thing to learn. And I learned that from motion pictures, too, and from poetry. Poetry is mainly metaphor. If it doesn't have a metaphor, it doesn't work.
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I don't believe in colleges and universities.
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If you're reluctant to weep, you won't live a full and complete life.
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Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.
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You let the story cool off and then, instead of rewriting it, you relive it.
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Facts quite often, I fear to confess, like lawyers, put me to sleep at noon. Not theories, however. Theories are invigorating and tonic. Give me an ounce of fact and I will produce you a ton of theory by tea this afternoon. That is, after all, my job.
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