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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
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Waukegan
Illinois
Ray Douglas Bradbury
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Where would you like to go, what would you really like to do with your life? See Istanbul, Port Said, Nairobi, Budapest. Write a book. Smoke too many cigarettes. Fall off a cliff but get caught in a tree halfway down. Get shot at a few times in a dark alley on a Morrocan midnight. Love a beautiful woman.
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So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.
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Edgar Allen Poe really started me when I was 8. I fell in love with everything of his.
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Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.
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First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right.
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And besides, I like to cry. After I cry hard it's like it's morning again and I'm starting the day over.
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The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.
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Kerosene, he said, because the silence had lengthened, is nothing but perfume to me.
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If you're reluctant to weep, you won't live a full and complete life.
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Thus through half-belief, we are often doomed to repeat that very past we should have learned from.
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The moon is a good, solid base to build a space travel organization in the community.
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I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools.
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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.
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The Martians were there - in the canal - reflected in the water.... The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water.
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Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
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Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.
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There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.
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It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.
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I laugh until I weep And weep until I smile
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