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Go out and make your own speeches. People need you. Go on TV. It can be done. After you speak up a few times, people say, Hey, we got a crazy man in the community, and they'll begin talking to you.

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Ray Bradbury
Age: 91 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 22
Died: 2012
Died: June 6
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Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about.
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Everything is generated through your own will power.
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Why is it, he said, one time, at the subway entrance, I feel I've known you so many years? Because I like you, she said, and I don't want anything from you.
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People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it.
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I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour.
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I'm inclined to believe you need the psychiatrist.
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I have fun with ideas I play with them.
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Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here.
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Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers.
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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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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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Everything of mine is permeated with my love of ideas-both big and small. It doesn't matter what it is, as long as it grabs me and holds me, facinates me. And then I'll run out and something about it... I write for fun.
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If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.
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You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then you walk away from it and let it ferment. You ignore it and pretend you don't care. Next thing you know, the answer comes.
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The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot.
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Good writers touch life often.
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Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle.
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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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