Ray Bradbury Quotes
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There are two races of people -- men and women -- no matter what women's libbers would have you pretend. The male is motivated by toys and science because men are born with no purpose in the universe except to procreate. There is lots of time to kill beyond that. They've got to find work. Men have no inherent center to themselves beyond procreating. Women, however, are born with a center. They can create the universe, mother it, teach it, nurture it. Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.
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The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive.
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We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
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The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are.
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The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.
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Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.
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Life shoould be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at other move forward with it.
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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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All isn't well with the world.
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We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe
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But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes
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The blizzard doesn't last forever; it just seems so.
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A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery.
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You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.
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You fail only if you stop writing.
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You don't pay any attention to anything anyone else says, no opinions. The important thing is to explode with a story, to emotionalize a story, not to think it. You start thinking - the story's going to die on its feet.
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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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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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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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A conglomerate heap of trash, that's what I am. But it burns with a high flame.
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There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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We must move into the universe. Mankind must save itself. We must escape the danger of war and politics. We must become astronauts and go out into the universe and discover the God in ourselves.
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You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You've got to learn how to write!
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Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.