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Do three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay.

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Ray Bradbury
Age: 91 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 22
Died: 2012
Died: June 6
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Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can nowadays, is happier than any man who tries to slide-rule, measure, and equate the universe, which just won't be measured or equated without making man feel bestial and lonely.
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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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The great thing about my life is that everything I've done is a result of what I was when I was 12 or 13.
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The Greek philosophies teach us that we are a combination of dark and light, good and evil, and murderer and savior, hmm? And until we know this completely about ourselves we cannot love well, and we cannot forgive ourselves.
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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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It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.
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Night had come on like the closing of a great but gentle eye.
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I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college.
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Facts are not interesting to me.
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I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the bushel and the peck, then they'll become better writers - to learn how to capsualize things and present them in metaphorical form.
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The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive.
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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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