Ray Bradbury Quotes
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You learn to live with your crazy enthusiasms which nobody else shares, and then you find a few other nuts like yourself, and they're your friends for a lifetime. That's what friends are, the people who share your crazy outlook and protect you from the world, because nobody else is going to give a damn what you're doing, so you need a few other people like yourself.
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For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan or dolphin, nuclear-head or water-conversationalist, pro-computerologist or Neo-Luddite, simpleton or sage, to interfere with aesthetics. The real world is the playing ground for each and every group, to make or unmake laws. But the tip of the nose of my book or stories or poems is where their rights end and my territorial imperatives begin, run and rule.
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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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Disbelief is catching. It rubs off on people.
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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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Important thing is not the me that's lying here, but the me that's sitting on the edge of the bed looking back at me, and the me that's downstairs cooking supper, or out in the garage under the car, or in the library reading. All the new parts, they count. I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family.
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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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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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When I finished writing it, I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.
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The important thing of any time you live in is to be in love yourself. You float above your time then. It's what you want that counts, not what your time wants.
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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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When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field.
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What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read?
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Everything is generated through your own will power. You don't have to do anything you don't want to do. This is a democracy. You go where you want to go and do what you want to do.
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Orwell was dealing with communism and his disillusionment with communism in Russia and what he saw the communists do in Spain. His novel was a response to those political situations. Whereas I was interested in more things than the political atmosphere. I was considering the whole social atmosphere: the impact of TV and radio and the lack of education. I could see the coming event of schoolteachers not teaching reading anymore. The less they taught, the more you wouldn't need books.
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You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
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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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I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.
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Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry.
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Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.
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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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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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I don't like to go to theaters, because I don't like the way most people behave in theaters.
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They walked still farther and the girl said, "Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to start them?" No. Houses have always been fireproof, take my word for it." Strange. I heard once that a long time ago houses used to burn by accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames.