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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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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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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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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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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The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.
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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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'You mean he's dead too?' asked Suzy. 'Yes,' said Dusk. 'This morning, in his cell. The guards outside were also slain, and only Sir Thursday's boots remained.' 'Sounds more like he escaped,' Suzy said. 'His feet were still in the boots,' said Dusk.
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I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
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I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
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The Greek conception of a life in harmony with nature found its most complete development in the rationalism of the Renaissance and of the centuries that followed it.
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You can accomplish virtually anything if you want it badly enough and if you are willing to work long enough and hard enough.
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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.
