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Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.
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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Poet
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Science Fiction Writer
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Waukegan
Illinois
Ray Douglas Bradbury
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