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What do you do, go around trying everything once?' he asked. 'Sometimes twice.

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