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The important thing is to be in love with something.
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If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.
Ray Bradbury
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Those who don't build must burn.
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The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere.
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They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it meant to own a world and how big a world really was.
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I am a dedicated madman, and that becomes its own training. If you can't resist, if the typewriter is like candy to you, you train yourself for a lifetime. Every single day of your life, some wild new thing to be done. You write to please yourself. You write for the joy of writing. Then your public reads you and it begins to gather around your selling a potato peeler in an alley, you know. The enthusiasm, the joy itself draws me. So that means every day of my life I've written. When the joy stops, I'll stop writing.
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Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.
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If someone sends you a love letter you've got to answer back.
Ray Bradbury
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Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.
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Notoriety and a fat bank balance must come after everything else is finished and done.
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The things that you do should be things that you love, and things that you love should be things that you do.
Ray Bradbury -
I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.
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Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?
Ray Bradbury -
You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode.
Ray Bradbury
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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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Most of my stories are ideas in action. In other words, I get a concept, and I let it run away. I find a character to act out the idea. And then the story takes care of itself.
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From now on I hope always to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.
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No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it.
Ray Bradbury -
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?
Ray Bradbury -
Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.
Ray Bradbury
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Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.
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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.
Ray Bradbury -
The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.
Ray Bradbury -
The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
Ray Bradbury