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What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read?
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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I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.
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Facts are not interesting to me.
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I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.
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I don't like to go to theaters, because I don't like the way most people behave in theaters.
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