Ray Bradbury Quotes
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Are you happy?" she Clarisse said. "Am I what?" he Montag cried. But she was gone- running in the moonlight. Her front door shut gently.
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What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse.
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Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.
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In order to be creative, you don't have to be original.
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Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.
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Thus through half-belief, we are often doomed to repeat that very past we should have learned from.
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Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.
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There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.
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I was only kicking down the Christmas tree to get the star on top.
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Night had come on like the closing of a great but gentle eye.
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Joy is the grace we say to God.
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He had never liked October. Ever since he had first lay in the autumn leaves before his grandmother's house many years ago and heard the wind and saw the empty trees. It had made him cry, without a reason. And a little of that sadness returned each year to him. It always went away with spring. But, it was a little different tonight. There was a feeling of autumn coming to last a million years. There would be no spring. ("The October Game")
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A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.
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The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.
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Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to. . . . When it hurts, when it means you rub chins with death, or even if it means dying, that's good. Anything that moves ahead, wins. No chess game was ever won by the player who sat for a lifetime thinking over his next move.
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Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.
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Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.
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And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again.
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If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.
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A day without writing was a little death.
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(...) And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (...)
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You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode.
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We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam.
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The human race likes to give itself airs. One good volcano can produce more greenhouse gases in a year than the human race has in its entire history.