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You're either in love with what you do, or you're not in love.

Ray Bradbury

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Ray Bradbury
Age: 91 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 22
Died: 2012
Died: June 6
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
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Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Waukegan
Illinois
Ray Douglas Bradbury
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We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
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Not to write, for many of us, is to die.
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Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.
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No use going to class unless you go to the library.
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Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable people want only the faces of the full moon, wax, faces without pores, hairless, expressionless.
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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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First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him.
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Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers.
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Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.
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We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give back to the universe. If we make landfall on another star system, we become immortal.
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I don't like the kind of writer who's out to change the world and beat up on people for their own good. Stalin did that and Hitler did that, and to hell with them.
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We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while.
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