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But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

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Ray Bradbury
Age: 91 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 22
Died: 2012
Died: June 6
Novelist
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Poet
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Science Fiction Writer
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Waukegan
Illinois
Ray Douglas Bradbury
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