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Good writers touch life often.

Ray Bradbury

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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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Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
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If someone sends you a love letter you've got to answer back.
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Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, know power, accept, and need not mention it. Why speak of time when you are Time, and shape the universal moments, as they pass, into warmth and action?
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You let the story cool off and then, instead of rewriting it, you relive it.
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We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give back to the universe. If we make landfall on another star system, we become immortal.
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Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.
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If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.
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The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
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What do you do, go around trying everything once?' he asked. 'Sometimes twice.
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Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight.
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When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.
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In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize.
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When you're older you want to learn from other people.
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If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their own ungodly manufacture.
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Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, There are no answers.
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