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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.
Ray Bradbury
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Ray Bradbury
Age: 91 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 22
Died: 2012
Died: June 6
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With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.
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Friendship is an island that you retreat to and you all fall on the floor and laugh at all the other ninnies that don't have enough brains to have your good taste.
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Not to write, for many of us, is to die.
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I'm not anyone, I'm just myself whatever I am, I am something, and now I'm something you can't help.
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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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It was a pleasure to burn.
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I'm inclined to believe you need the psychiatrist.
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Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.
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He says I'm a regular onion! I keep him busy peeling away the layers.
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Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.
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That's the good part of dying when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.
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Halloween. Sly does it. Tiptoe catspaws. Slide and creep. But why? What for? How? Who? When! Where did it all begin? 'You don't know, do you?' asks Carapace Clavicle Moundshroud climbing out under the pile of leaves under the Halloween Tree. 'You don't really know!'
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