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Your mind's always juggling, isn't it?-mirrors, torches, plates.

Ray Bradbury

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Ray Bradbury
Age: 91 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 22
Died: 2012
Died: June 6
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Waukegan
Illinois
Ray Douglas Bradbury
Always
Juggling
Torches
Plates
Mirrors
Mind

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