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I don’t write things to benefit the world. If it happens that they do, swell. I didn’t set out to do that. I set out to have a hell of a lot of fun.
Ray Bradbury
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Ray Bradbury
Age: 91 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 22
Died: 2012
Died: June 6
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Ray Douglas Bradbury
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Comic strips introduced me to metaphors. They are pure metaphor, so you learn how to tell a story with symbols, which is a very valuable thing to learn. And I learned that from motion pictures, too, and from poetry. Poetry is mainly metaphor. If it doesn't have a metaphor, it doesn't work.
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I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now that's a beginning.
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There was her face, like a summer peach, beautiful and warm, and the light of the candles reflected in her dark eyes. [He] held his breath. The entire world waited and held its breath.
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Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.
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Touch a scientist and you touch a child.
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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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I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.
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And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn't cry. For it would be the dying face of an unknown, a street face, a newspaper image, and it was suddenly so very wrong that he had begun to cry, not at death but at the thought of not crying at death, a silly empty man near a silly empty woman.
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He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.
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Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable people want only the faces of the full moon, wax, faces without pores, hairless, expressionless.
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We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
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Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.
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When the wind is right, a faint odor of kerosene is exhaled from Senator McCarthy.
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Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.
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I'm inclined to believe you need the psychiatrist.
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I'm trying to teach people of all ages to, number one: how to criticize, how to offer creative analysis on top of that, how to try to build things in a new direction and how to compliment people when the thing gets done.
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Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.
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The human race likes to give itself airs. One good volcano can produce more greenhouse gases in a year than the human race has in its entire history.
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I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.
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