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Those who don't build must burn.

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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Poet
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Science Fiction Writer
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Waukegan
Illinois
Ray Douglas Bradbury
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We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while.
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I don't like to go to theaters, because I don't like the way most people behave in theaters.
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I don't believe in colleges and universities.
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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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The father hesitated only a moment. He felt the vague pain in his chest. If I run, he thought, what will happen? Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts. And we've done fine tonight. Even Death can't spoil it.
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