Ray Bradbury Quotes
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I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.
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You'd type like hell. I spent $9.80 and in nine days I had Fahrenheit 451.
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But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again.
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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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Do what you love, don't do anything else.
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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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Today we haved touched Mars. There is life on Mars, and it us us-extensions of our eyes in all directions, extensions of our mind, extensions of our heart and soul have touched Mars today. That's the message to look for there: We are on Mars. We are the Martians!
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The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
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How long has it been since you wrote a story where your real love or your real hatred somehow got onto the paper? When was the last time you dared release a cherished prejudice so it slammed the page like a lightning bolt?
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I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.
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There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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You don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them.
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Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.
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I believe in Darwin and God together.
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Kerosene," he said, because the silence had lengthened, "is nothing but perfume to me.
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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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Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.
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Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it.
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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 don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.
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There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.
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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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I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.
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If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.