Ray Bradbury Quotes
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You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
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You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
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It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.
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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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My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god.
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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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I started writing every day. I never stopped.
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If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.
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The great thing about my life is that everything I've done is a result of what I was when I was 12 or 13.
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If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.
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But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes
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Have you ever watched the jet cars race on the boulevard?...I sometimes think drivers don’t know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly...If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! He'd say, that’s grass! A pink blur! That’s a rose garden! White blurs are houses. Brown blurs are cows.
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Good to evil seems evil
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You don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them.
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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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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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I have four daughters and eight grandchildren. My soul lives on in them. That's immortality. That's the only immortality I care about.
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May you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.
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..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.
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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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You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then you walk away from it and let it ferment. You ignore it and pretend you don't care. Next thing you know, the answer comes.
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Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.
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Everything that happens before Death is what counts.
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You're insane!" "I won't argue that point.