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Ray Bradbury
Age: 91 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 22
Died: 2012
Died: June 6
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Waukegan
Illinois
Ray Douglas Bradbury
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There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.
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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
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Today we haved touched Mars. There is life on Mars, and it us us-extensions of our eyes in all directions, extensions of our mind, extensions of our heart and soul have touched Mars today. That's the message to look for there: We are on Mars. We are the Martians!
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And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again.
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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.
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Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do.
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That's the good part of dying when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.
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..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.
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The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.
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I wake up in the morning and I lie in bed, and it's the time I call the theater of morning. All these thoughts run around in my head, between my ears when I'm waking up. It's not a dream state, but it's not completely awake either. So all these metaphors run around and then I pick one and I get out of bed and I do it. I'm very lucky.
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Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.
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How to feel your way toward something honest, hidden under the trapdoor on the top of your skull.
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Forget them. Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean.
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The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.
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Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.
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If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their own ungodly manufacture.
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Good writers touch life often.
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I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the bushel and the peck, then they'll become better writers - to learn how to capsualize things and present them in metaphorical form.
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