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I'm not trying to PREDICT the future. I'm just trying to PREVENT it.

Ray Bradbury

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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
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Waukegan
Illinois
Ray Douglas Bradbury
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My business is to prevent the future.
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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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Everything of mine is permeated with my love of ideas-both big and small. It doesn't matter what it is, as long as it grabs me and holds me, facinates me. And then I'll run out and something about it... I write for fun.
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Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.
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A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.
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I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college.
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Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, know power, accept, and need not mention it. Why speak of time when you are Time, and shape the universal moments, as they pass, into warmth and action?
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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.
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I have fun with ideas I play with them.
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The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that nobody wanted, why I do short stories and novels and screenplays... is so I will have new ways of failing. This means becoming a student again.
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