Ray Bradbury Quotes
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The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.
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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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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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Don't talk about it; write.
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Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.
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You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year
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Evil has only the power we give it.
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I write all of my novels and stories, as you have seen, in a great surge of delightful passion. Only recently, glancing at the novel, I realized that Montag is named after a paper manufacturing company. And Faber, of course, is a maker of pencils! What a sly thing my subconscious was, to name them thus. And not tell me!
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Edgar Allen Poe really started me when I was 8. I fell in love with everything of his.
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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.
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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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I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion , now .
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Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.
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And they were all, when their souls grew warm, poets.
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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
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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.
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We're a free society; we've got television. We have radio. We have newspapers. We have the videocassette, which is coming into play. These are new freedoms.
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(...) And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (...)
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I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.
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Without the library, you have no civilization.
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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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Life should be touched, not strangled.
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When you're older you want to learn from other people.