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You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.

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
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Waukegan
Illinois
Ray Douglas Bradbury
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