Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty. There was more than enough here to fill him. There would always be more than enough.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.
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And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation.
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All of us grow.
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So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different.
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I have a very balanced posture about the political situation in my country.
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Even if it's a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.
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I want films to haunt an audience, to give them something to remember and be able to talk about.
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When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.
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Between the desireAnd the spasmBetween the potencyAnd the existenceBetween the essenceAnd the descentFalls the Shadow .
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When we associate with others we really associate with ourselves. We like or dislike in others whatever we like or dislike in ourselves.
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While I was obsessed with my own misery, there were other things occurring in the human universe.
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An individual may perceive a way of life, or a method of social organisation, by which more of the desires of mankind could be satisfied than under the existing method. If he perceives truly, and can persuade men to adopt his reform, he is justified. Without rebellion, mankind would stagnate, and injustice would be irremediable.
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Né spegner può, per starne l'acqua, il fuoco,Né può stato mutar, per mutar loco.
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Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are devoid of the extraordinary features which characterize bees; this we should expect, for they have nothing divine about them as the bees have.
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Cuanto no puede ser, casi siempre es un reproche a cuanto puede ser.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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Jeans fit the mature male one of two ways, both dirigible in nature. You make a public impression that's either Hindenburg or Goodyear blimp.
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For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.
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In Russian administration, minuteness does not exclude disorder. Much trouble is taken to attain unimportant ends, and those employed believe they can never do enough to show their zeal. The result is...that having passed through one formality does not secure the stranger from another.
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He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty. There was more than enough here to fill him. There would always be more than enough.
