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The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events.
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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Waukegan
Illinois
Ray Douglas Bradbury
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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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If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.
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Day, after day, after glorious day, I was falling in love with books.
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When you go home tonight, make a list of the people who are impediments, who don't believe in you, and call them up and tell them, 'Get the hell out of my life.' You don't need them. Writing is tough enough without having people around you who contribute to a writer's insecurity.
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I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.
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I like to smell things and look at things, and sometimes stay up all night, walking, and watch the sun rise.
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There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.
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I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.
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I have four daughters and eight grandchildren. My soul lives on in them. That's immortality. That's the only immortality I care about.
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The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems to be solved. It's problem solving. Primitive scientific knowledge, primitive dreams, primitive blueprinting: to solve problems.
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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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Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.
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The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.
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Kill two birds with one stone, feed the homeless to the hungry.
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Impossible for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?
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Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me, I can't talk to my wife she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough it'll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read.
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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 love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.
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Not to write, for many of us, is to die. We must take ares each and every day, perhaps knowing that the battle cannot be entirely won, but fight we must, if only a gentle bout. The smallest effort to win means, at the end of each day, a sort of victory.
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We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give back to the universe. If we make landfall on another star system, we become immortal.
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