Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other people's advice that they needed burning. Otherwise you'd have realized what I was going to do to you when we came down here a moment ago. Ignorance is fatal, Mr. Garrett.
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
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I'm a slow starter.
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It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
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The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.
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I believe clothing tell a story.
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The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.
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Fingerprints prove you Greystoke. Congratulations. D'Arnot.
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Music starts playing like the end of a sad movie.It's the kind of ending you don't really wanna see.'Cause it's tragedy and it'll only bring you down.Now I don't know what to be without you around.
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Ninety-nine people out of a hundred have not seriously considered what they mean by the term 'exist' nor how a thing qualifies itself to be labelled real.
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Jazz was my first love.
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I have had struggles with some eating disorders, just eating issues.
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Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.
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My cheat days are bread, bread, bread, and cookies. I love bread!
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Wherever God has given faith, it is given, among other reasons, for the very purpose of being tried.
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Don't let me catch anyone talking about the Universe in my department.
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I had an interesting day's reading yesterday, with the sudden sensation of being in close contact with what I was reading. ... But as for reading how curious it is: all these books, their lore of the ages, waiting to be embraced but usually slipping out of one's nerveless hands on to the floor. When one reads properly it is as if a third person is present.
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For a Nabokov fan, paging through 'Fine Lines,' which includes a critical introduction and several essayistic evaluations of Nabokov's scientific oeuvre, can feel a bit like reading the second half of 'Pale Fire': one is confronted by a content-rich, almost dementedly tangential commentary on an increasingly inscrutable work.
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I meditate. Like, I try. Not every day, but even if I'm not doing that meditation, the moments of my day have changed because I'm not on my phone so much. I'm intentionally not checking my phone every two seconds.
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Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other people's advice that they needed burning. Otherwise you'd have realized what I was going to do to you when we came down here a moment ago. Ignorance is fatal, Mr. Garrett.
