Ray Bradbury Quotes
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You don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them.
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Friendship is an island that you retreat to and you all fall on the floor and laugh at all the other ninnies that don't have enough brains to have your good taste.
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I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.
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We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe
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Without the library, you have no civilization.
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It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.
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Kill two birds with one stone, feed the homeless to the hungry.
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Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.
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If you're reluctant to weep, you won't live a full and complete life.
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When you go home tonight, make a list of the people who are impediments, who don't believe in you, and call them up and tell them, 'Get the hell out of my life.' You don't need them. Writing is tough enough without having people around you who contribute to a writer's insecurity.
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From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living. Did all dying people feel this way, as if they had never lived? Did life seem that short, indeed, over and done before you took a breath? Did it seem this abrupt and impossible to everyone, or only to himself, here, now, with a few hours left to him for thought and deliberation?
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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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At the top of your lungs, shout and listen to the echoes. You must live life at the top of your voice!
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Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me, I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough it'll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read.
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Notoriety and a fat bank balance must come after everything else is finished and done.
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He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life.
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...I mean, you don't just love people, you must LOVE them with exclamation points.
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There are a lot of wonderful women writers who would be good influences on writers. You've got to spread yourself out and educate yourself with all kinds of stories.
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Hollywood was a good influence because I was madly in love with films, and the films had a direct influence on me.
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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 don’t write things to benefit the world. If it happens that they do, swell. I didn’t set out to do that. I set out to have a hell of a lot of fun.
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Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
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Everything that happens before Death is what counts.
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Edgar Allen Poe really started me when I was 8. I fell in love with everything of his.