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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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Ray Bradbury
Age: 91 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 22
Died: 2012
Died: June 6
Novelist
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Poet
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Science Fiction Writer
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Waukegan
Illinois
Ray Douglas Bradbury
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Touch a scientist and you touch a child.
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You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.
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The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.
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Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.
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