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Kerosene, he said, because the silence had lengthened, is nothing but perfume to me.

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Ray Bradbury
Age: 91 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 22
Died: 2012
Died: June 6
Novelist
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Poet
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Waukegan
Illinois
Ray Douglas Bradbury
Kerosene
Lengthened
Perfume
Silence
Nothing

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