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Ray Bradbury

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Ray Bradbury
Age: 91 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 22
Died: 2012
Died: June 6
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
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Science Fiction Writer
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Waukegan
Illinois
Ray Douglas Bradbury
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I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.
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I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?
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Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe when it dies?
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A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time,” she said. “I was born out of New York. The things that are most wrong here summoned me. (Drink Entire: Against The Madness Of Crowds)
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Touch a scientist and you touch a child.
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We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.
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The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It's all crap.
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If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.
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You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
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I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.
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I don't believe in government. I hate politics. I'm against it. And I hope that sometime this fall, we can destroy part of our government, and next year destroy even more of it. The less government, the happier I will be.
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A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?
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I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.
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There was her face, like a summer peach, beautiful and warm, and the light of the candles reflected in her dark eyes. [He] held his breath. The entire world waited and held its breath.
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I write all of my novels and stories, as you have seen, in a great surge of delightful passion. Only recently, glancing at the novel, I realized that Montag is named after a paper manufacturing company. And Faber, of course, is a maker of pencils! What a sly thing my subconscious was, to name them thus. And not tell me!
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The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.
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The sun rose yellow as a lemon.The sky was round and blue.The birds looped clear water songs in the air.Will and Jim leaned from their windows.Nothing had changed.Except the look in Jim's eyes.Last night. . . said Will. Did or didn't it happen?
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It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.
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When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would be insulted. They would call you Flash Gordon all evening, or Buck Rogers.
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For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person.
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