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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.
Ray Bradbury
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Ray Bradbury
Age: 91 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 22
Died: 2012
Died: June 6
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Ray Douglas Bradbury
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Out in the world not much happened. But here in the special night, a land bricked with paper and leather anything might happen, always did.
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If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
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Notoriety and a fat bank balance must come after everything else is finished and done.
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The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.
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We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.
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Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons.
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I'm trying to teach people of all ages to, number one: how to criticize, how to offer creative analysis on top of that, how to try to build things in a new direction and how to compliment people when the thing gets done.
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Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.
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We're all watching each other, so there's no chance for censorship. The main problem is the idiot TV. If you watch local news, your head will turn to mush.
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Who has more pockets than a magician? A boy. Whose pockets contain *more* than a magicians? A boy's.
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What are you up to now? I'm sill crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it.
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You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.
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Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.
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I love the musical form of books. It's a different way of doing things, it's very beautiful. You're able to sing things instead of saying them. So what the heck - why not do them?
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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths beneath my skin and behind my eye.
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Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.
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