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He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out.
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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You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You've got to learn how to write!
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I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt my face and it was dry. Then I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, it's just the rain, the rain, always the rain, and turned over, sadder still, and fumbled about for my dripping sleep and tried to slip it back on.
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Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.
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Notoriety and a fat bank balance must come after everything else is finished and done.
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I have fun with ideas I play with them.
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You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.
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There are too many of us, he thought. There are billions of us and that's too many. Nobody knows anyone. Strangers come and violate you. Strangers come and cut your heart out. Strangers come and take your blood. Good God, who were those men? I never saw them before in my life!
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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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... bums on the outside, libraries inside.
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The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot.
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The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
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Those women like to see their tongues dance.
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The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive.
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The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.
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Do you ever wonder if--well, if there are people living on the third planet?' 'The third planet is incapable of supporting life,' stated the husband patiently. 'Our scientists have said there's far too much oxygen in their atmosphere.
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We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will.
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I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.
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I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family. I'll be around a long time. A thousand years from now, a whole township of my offspring will be biting sour apples in the gumwood shade.
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Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.
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