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Forget them. Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean.

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
Writer
Waukegan
Illinois
Ray Douglas Bradbury
Burn
Bright
Clean
Fire
Forget
Everything

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