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Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.
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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Joy is the grace we say to God.
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I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life.
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