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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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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Science Fiction Writer
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Waukegan
Illinois
Ray Douglas Bradbury
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Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me, I can't talk to my wife she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough it'll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read.
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All isn't well with the world.
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When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.
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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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The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.
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Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter. Longchenpa Let's stuff our eyes with wonder, let's live as if we'd drop dead in ten seconds. Let's see the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
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What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse.
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Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.
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You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.
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A book is a loaded gun.
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Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.
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He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.
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It was a pleasure to burn.
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We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.
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The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.
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And the lesson was this sit in the sun, head down, within a prickly vine, in a flickery light, or open light, and the world will come to you. The sky will come in its time, bringing rain, and the earth will rise through you, from beneath, and make you rich and make you full.
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I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.
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I’m really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don’t remember!
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You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.
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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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