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I’m really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don’t remember!
Ray Bradbury
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Ray Bradbury
Age: 91 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 22
Died: 2012
Died: June 6
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Ray Douglas Bradbury
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It's rare you get an idea from a dream. I can't really recall a story that ever worked out that way. I think in 35 years of writing, that I've ever had a dream that held up. They're much too dislocated
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I write all of my novels and stories, as you have seen, in a great surge of delightful passion. Only recently, glancing at the novel, I realized that Montag is named after a paper manufacturing company. And Faber, of course, is a maker of pencils! What a sly thing my subconscious was, to name them thus. And not tell me!
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I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the bushel and the peck, then they'll become better writers - to learn how to capsualize things and present them in metaphorical form.
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There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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If you're reluctant to weep, you won't live a full and complete life.
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I was partially raised by an aunt who was a dress designer, so I was around her studio all of my early life. I know materials. I can look through Harper's Bazaar and decide what works and what doesn't, or any other magazine, Seventeen if you wish.
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I have something to fight for and live for that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion , now .
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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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To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start.
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A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time,” she said. “I was born out of New York. The things that are most wrong here summoned me. (Drink Entire: Against The Madness Of Crowds)
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Everything that happens before Death is what counts.
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I'll be darned! said Douglas. I never thought of that. That's brilliant! It's true. Old people never were children! And it's kind of sad, said Tom, sitting still.There's nothing we can do to help them.
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I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.
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Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.
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Life should be touched, not strangled.
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Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, know power, accept, and need not mention it. Why speak of time when you are Time, and shape the universal moments, as they pass, into warmth and action?
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Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness
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A single face turned upward toward all Time One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace.
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I have fun with ideas I play with them.
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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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