Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
Ray Bradbury
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You can't write anything you want. Once you write that first chapter, then everything else is determined. You can write anything you want, but only one thing works.
Wayne Grady
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When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredibly gifted writer, a young Malcom Gladwell, say, you need to be imitating people. You need to be imitating how they make their work, how they structure it, how they design the pieces. It gives you chops; it gives you moves.
Ira Glass
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As it defines itself, every society defines other societies. That definition almost always takes the form of a condemnation: the 'other' is the barbarian.
Octavio Paz
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For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.
Radha Mitchell
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And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.
Beau Bridges
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I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners- two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I like to read fiction best and I like to write fiction, too.
Judy Blume
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One man assigned outside the door where Gravey sleeps or does not sleep nights gets off duty at the crack of dawn having stood parallel to the wall between them for most of seven hours, walks to his car, unlocks the door, enters through the driver’s side seat, slides across the leather into the passenger side, straps on his seatbelt, takes out his service revolver, puts it in his mouth, and shoots his body dead.
Blake Butler
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When we live in our own privileged little bubble, it is convenient to pretend that all is well with the world, that everyone enjoys the same privileges that we do. We conveniently forget that there are others, sometimes our very own next-door neighbors, who suffer in ways that we do not.
Chinelo Okparanta
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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
Ray Bradbury
