Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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But, I swear, they're turning Donna into Annie Hall this season. More ties. More suits. But they're also keeping her really motivated, ya know? Like, wanting to be a rock journalist. Wanting to be the first woman president.
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I love to go to casinos with my wife. I play poker, and she's an old-fashioned slot queen. She even has a visor.
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There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books.
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Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
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What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.
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Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning.
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I'm a travel enthusiast.
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Embryonic stem cell research has the potential to alleviate so much suffering. Surely, by working together we can harness its life-giving potential.
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For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as the only way one can speak of God is to speak of him as though he were a man, which to be sure he was, in a sense, for a time, and as the only way one can speak of man, even our anthropologists have realized that, is to speak of him as though he were a termite.
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All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
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The idea that in order to get clear about the meaning of a general term one had to find the common element in all its applications has shackled philosophical investigation; for it has not only led to no result, but also made the philosopher dismiss as irrelevant the concrete cases, which alone could have helped him understand the usage of the general term.
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If the Lord - who is the light of all things - vouchsafe to enlighten me, I will treat of Light; wherefore I will divide the present work into 3 Parts... Linear Perspective, The Perspective of Colour, The Perspective of Disappearance.
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I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.
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Peoria is such a seemingly quintessential American city, and I had always wanted to draw on that in either my fiction or in nonfiction. The Midwest is also a landscape that I have always been infatuated with, perhaps because it's the first one I can truly remember.
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I'm probably more of a stand-up comedian than an actor.
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I never had lofty dreams of doing important things.
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Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out.
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Job growth well in excess of population increase would be a very good thing if it were only that easy.
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There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production.
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The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.
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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
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Art, unlike the trades in the artistic capacity of fashion and food, can literally be anything. It can be the negation of itself and conceptually not present.
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Suddenly the day was gone, night came out from under each tree and spread.
