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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
Screenwriter
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Waukegan
Illinois
Ray Douglas Bradbury
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But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself-- ~Something Wicked This Way Comes
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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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What church could compete with the fireworks of the pure soul?
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From now on I hope always to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.
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We are all . . . children of this universe. Not just Earth, or Mars, or this system, but the whole grand fireworks. And if we are interested in Mars at all, it is only because we wonder over our past and worry terribly about our possible future.
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Get rid of those friends of yours who make fun of you and don't believe in you. And when you leave here tonight, go home, make a phone call and fire them. Anyone that doesn't believe in you and your future, to hell with them.
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You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.
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How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike.
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Those who live in the best cliffs think they are better than us. That is always man's attitude when he has power.
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The great thing about my life is that everything I've done is a result of what I was when I was 12 or 13.
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All isn't well with the world.
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I feel like I’ve been saving up a lot of things, and I don’t know what.
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Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.
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The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that nobody wanted, why I do short stories and novels and screenplays... is so I will have new ways of failing. This means becoming a student again.
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I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal.
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Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together.
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Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
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You've been put on the world to love the act of being alive.
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My goal is to entertain myself and others.
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Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about.
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