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You've been put on the world to love the act of being alive.
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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Impossible for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?
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Venice was and is full of lost places where people put up for sale the last worn bits of their souls, hoping no one will buy.
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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.
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