Ray Bradbury Quotes
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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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Those women like to see their tongues dance.
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Life should be touched, not strangled.
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Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there was it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away.
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Out in the world not much happened. But here in the special night, a land bricked with paper and leather anything might happen, always did.
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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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We're going to become the martians when we land there. When we explore and build communities, we become the martians. That's a wonderful destiny for all of us.
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I wonder how many men, hiding their youngness, rise as I do, Saturday mornings, filled with the hope that Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam and Daffy Duck will be there waiting as our one true always and forever salvation?
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I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.
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How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
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It won't work,' Mr. Bentley continued, sipping his tea. 'No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now. Time hypnotizes. When you're nine, you think you've always been nine years old and will always be. When you're thirty, it seems you've always been balanced there on that bright rim of middle life. And then when you turn seventy, you are always and forever seventy. You're in the present, you're trapped in a young now or an old now, but there is no other now to be seen.
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The whole concept of higher education is negated unless the sole criterion used to determine if students qualify is the grades they score on standardized tests. Education is purely an issue of learning - we can no longer afford to have it polluted by damn politics. Leave pollution up to the politicians
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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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Go out and make your own speeches. People need you. Go on TV. It can be done. After you speak up a few times, people say, "Hey, we got a crazy man in the community," and they'll begin talking to you.
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In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize.
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Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
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I was only kicking down the Christmas tree to get the star on top.
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Kill two birds with one stone, feed the homeless to the hungry.
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God, here and there, makes madness a calling.
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I'm trying to teach people of all ages to, number one: how to criticize, how to offer creative analysis on top of that, how to try to build things in a new direction and how to compliment people when the thing gets done.
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I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.
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The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.
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And besides, I like to cry. After I cry hard it's like it's morning again and I'm starting the day over.
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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.