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..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

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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
Writer
Waukegan
Illinois
Ray Douglas Bradbury
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The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.
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Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.
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We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
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How many times can a man go down and still be alive?
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First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.
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Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going a long time back. I said nothing. I am one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the 'guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.
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It's rare you get an idea from a dream. I can't really recall a story that ever worked out that way. I think in 35 years of writing, that I've ever had a dream that held up. They're much too dislocated
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A life's work should be based on love.
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Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.
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How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike.
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Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there was it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away.
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Those women like to see their tongues dance.
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Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
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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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All education is self-discovery.
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I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.
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I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.
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Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!
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