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I laugh until I weep And weep until I smile

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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
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Impossible for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?
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I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.
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But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.
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Love is easy, and I love writing.
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What church could compete with the fireworks of the pure soul?
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I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.
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We're a free society we've got television. We have radio. We have newspapers. We have the videocassette, which is coming into play. These are new freedoms.
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The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.
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Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
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Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for... are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book.
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It was a pleasure to burn.
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Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.
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Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day.
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What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse.
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My characters talk to one another, and when it reaches a certain pitch of excitement I jump out of bed and run and trap them before they are gone.
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The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is given to us by God to test things once they’re done, not to worry about things ahead of time.
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Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.
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Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
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