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The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.
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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Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do.
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But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at and read.
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You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.
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