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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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I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.
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The only good writing is intuitive writing. It would be a big bore if you knew where it was going. It has to be exciting, instantaneous and it has to be a surprise. Then it all comes blurting out and it’s beautiful. I’ve had a sign by my typewriter for 25 years now which reads, ‘DON’T THINK!’
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I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.
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I have something to fight for and live for that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion , now .
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Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.
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I’m really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don’t remember!
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You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.
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People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better.
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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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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.
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Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
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We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
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I take this continent with me into the grave.
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God, here and there, makes madness a calling.
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Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings.
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My gosh, if you’re going away, we got a million things to talk about! All the things we would’ve talked about next month, the month after! Praying mantises, zeppelins, acrobats, sword swallowers!
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Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight.
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This was all he wanted now. Some signs that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he needed to think all the things that must be thought.
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Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.
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I was partially raised by an aunt who was a dress designer, so I was around her studio all of my early life. I know materials. I can look through Harper's Bazaar and decide what works and what doesn't, or any other magazine, Seventeen if you wish.
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