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Night had come on like the closing of a great but gentle eye.
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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Ray Douglas Bradbury
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There are too many of us, he thought. There are billions of us and that's too many. Nobody knows anyone. Strangers come and violate you. Strangers come and cut your heart out. Strangers come and take your blood. Good God, who were those men? I never saw them before in my life!
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I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.
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It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.
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Programs like 'Jeopardy' and 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' are ridiculous. They're the stupidest shows in history. They're making us dumber. They don't give us information, they give us facts, factoids. You don't learn who Napoleon was and how he was motivated. You learn what year he was born, and when he died. That's useless.
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If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.
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The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.
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Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way.
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Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.
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Facts quite often, I fear to confess, like lawyers, put me to sleep at noon. Not theories, however. Theories are invigorating and tonic. Give me an ounce of fact and I will produce you a ton of theory by tea this afternoon. That is, after all, my job.
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I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life.
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I’m ALIVE. Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don’t watch. Then all of a sudden you look and see what you’re doing and it’s the first time, really.
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Do you ever wonder if--well, if there are people living on the third planet?' 'The third planet is incapable of supporting life,' stated the husband patiently. 'Our scientists have said there's far too much oxygen in their atmosphere.
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Everyone has a telephone. Whether they can afford it or not. It's one of those things that people have, regardless of their income.
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I was one of Them: the Strange Ones. The Funny People. The Odd Tribes of autograph collectors and photographers. The Ones who waited through long days and nights, who used other people's dreams for their lives.
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Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?
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I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.
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