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You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.

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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Ray Douglas Bradbury
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