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Why is it, he said, one time, at the subway entrance, I feel I've known you so many years? Because I like you, she said, and I don't want anything from you.

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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The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches God knows it'd be better for his health.
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It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.
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Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.
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Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.
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You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it.
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Kerosene, he said, because the silence had lengthened, is nothing but perfume to me.
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If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.
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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago. For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last. Maybe it's because I've done a rash thing and don't want to look the coward to you.
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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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Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.
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Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.
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I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college.
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A library is all the university you will ever need.
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You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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Who has more pockets than a magician? A boy. Whose pockets contain *more* than a magicians? A boy's.
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You don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them.
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Day, after day, after glorious day, I was falling in love with books.
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Time is so strange and life is twice as strange.
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