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For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person.
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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Waukegan
Illinois
Ray Douglas Bradbury
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Comic strips introduced me to metaphors. They are pure metaphor, so you learn how to tell a story with symbols, which is a very valuable thing to learn. And I learned that from motion pictures, too, and from poetry. Poetry is mainly metaphor. If it doesn't have a metaphor, it doesn't work.
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But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority
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Are you happy? she [Clarisse] said. Am I what? he [Montag] cried. But she was gone- running in the moonlight. Her front door shut gently.
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The stars are yours, if you have the head, the hands, and the heart for them.
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Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry.
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I take this continent with me into the grave.
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Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.
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When you're older you want to learn from other people.
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Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
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Those women like to see their tongues dance.
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All flesh is one: what matter scores Or color of the suit Or if the helmet glints with blue or gold? All is one bold achievement, All is fine spring-found-again-in-autumn day When juices run in antelopes along our blood, And green our flag, forever green...
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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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Kerosene, he said, because the silence had lengthened, is nothing but perfume to me.
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You let the story cool off and then, instead of rewriting it, you relive it.
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Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.
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Programs like 'Jeopardy' and 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' are ridiculous. They're the stupidest shows in history. They're making us dumber. They don't give us information, they give us facts, factoids. You don't learn who Napoleon was and how he was motivated. You learn what year he was born, and when he died. That's useless.
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How long has it been since you wrote a story where your real love or your real hatred somehow got onto the paper? When was the last time you dared release a cherished prejudice so it slammed the page like a lightning bolt?
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I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy.
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Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, There are no answers.
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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.
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