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Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head.

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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
Writer
Waukegan
Illinois
Ray Douglas Bradbury
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Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.
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And some day well remember so much that well build the biggest goddam steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in and cover it up.
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I don't like to go to theaters, because I don't like the way most people behave in theaters.
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I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.
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This is the emotional thing, you see - you must galvanize people, so they want to be completely alive and live forever, or the next thing to it. And out of that comes art, then, and survival through emotion.
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Notoriety and a fat bank balance must come after everything else is finished and done.
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Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!
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Chock them so ... full of facts they feel stuffed, but absolutely brilliant with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving.
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A library is all the university you will ever need.
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Mars is empty now. Five hundred years from now, it'll be full of people.
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Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter. Longchenpa Let's stuff our eyes with wonder, let's live as if we'd drop dead in ten seconds. Let's see the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
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It was a pleasure to burn.
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I’m ALIVE. Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don’t watch. Then all of a sudden you look and see what you’re doing and it’s the first time, really.
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People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say. Well, aren't they? Don't we keep them moving, don't we give them fun? That's all we live for, isn't it? For pleasure, for titillation? And you must admit our culture provides plenty of these.
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I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.
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Everyone has a telephone. Whether they can afford it or not. It's one of those things that people have, regardless of their income.
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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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This is the result of six billion years of evolution. Tonight, we have given the lie to gravity.We have reached for the stars.
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To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start.
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You don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them.
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