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Do three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay.
Ray Bradbury
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Ray Bradbury
Age: 91 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 22
Died: 2012
Died: June 6
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Waukegan
Illinois
Ray Douglas Bradbury
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The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that nobody wanted, why I do short stories and novels and screenplays... is so I will have new ways of failing. This means becoming a student again.
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The world doesn't give a damn about you unless you do something. Those are the rules I didn't make them. If you are lazy, if you don't get the work that you love done, the world won't care if you die tomorrow and go into the grave and are gone and forgotten forever.
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What are you up to now? I'm sill crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it.
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I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.
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Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.
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I love the musical form of books. It's a different way of doing things, it's very beautiful. You're able to sing things instead of saying them. So what the heck - why not do them?
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The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
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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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For about 150 days a year in Venice, the sun doesn't show through the mist until noon.
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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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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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Do what you love and love what you do. Don’t do anything for money. Everything should be for love.
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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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Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic.
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There are a lot of wonderful women writers who would be good influences on writers. You've got to spread yourself out and educate yourself with all kinds of stories.
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If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him give him one. Better yet, give him none.
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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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