Ray Bradbury Quotes
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The world doesn't give a damn about you unless you do something. Those are the rules; I didn't make them. If you are lazy, if you don't get the work that you love done, the world won't care if you die tomorrow and go into the grave and are gone and forgotten forever.
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So it was the hand that started it all . . . His hands had been infected, and soon it would be his arms . . . His hands were ravenous.
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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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If Blake said that, said Father Brian, he never lived in Dublin.
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We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
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Notoriety and a fat bank balance must come after everything else is finished and done.
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People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say. Well, aren't they? Don't we keep them moving, don't we give them fun? That's all we live for, isn't it? For pleasure, for titillation? And you must admit our culture provides plenty of these.
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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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Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.
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Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much?
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You're either in love with what you do, or you're not in love.
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Write what you love and love what you write.
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You don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them.
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A single face turned upward toward all Time One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace.
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Don't talk about it; write.
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...I mean, you don't just love people, you must LOVE them with exclamation points.
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I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.
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And they were all, when their souls grew warm, poets.
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The important thing is to be in love with something.
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I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.
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You're insane!" "I won't argue that point.
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Evil has only the power we give it.
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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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Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.