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You don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them.

Ray Bradbury

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Ray Bradbury
Age: 91 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 22
Died: 2012
Died: June 6
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
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Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Waukegan
Illinois
Ray Douglas Bradbury
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When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite.
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I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.
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People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it.
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