Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.
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I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
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When I go to clubs, I don't have to wait outside.
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Make health care a right, not a privilege.
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You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
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In the Andes and the Alps, I have seen melting glaciers. At both of the Earth's Poles, I have seen open sea where ice once dominated the horizon.
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A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
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Daisy was a consciously happy young woman without any of the usual endowments that make for conscious happiness, money apart. She was not pretty, she was not clever, she had no friends, no talents, nor even an imagination to make her think she was happy when she was really miserable. As she was never miserable, she had no need of an imagination.
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When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand.'
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The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple – to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.
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I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a girl... they got me instead.
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Being your own woman, not cookie cutter - that is the greatest luxury!
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Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.
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Drama comes more naturally to me. It's the comedy you really have to delve into.
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That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.
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Pleasure unparalleled, into the ocean of love we fell. Swimming in the timeless currents of pure bliss, fantasies interchanging with every kiss.
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Sometimes I'm girly; sometimes I like to be a little edgy.
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I'm psychotically involved in every tiny little aspect. That's just the way I've been about everything my whole life.
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Fear of ideas makes us impotent and ineffective.
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Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.
