Ray Bradbury Quotes
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We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe
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There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.
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It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.
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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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Hollywood was a good influence because I was madly in love with films, and the films had a direct influence on me.
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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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We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while.
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Who has more pockets than a magician? A boy. Whose pockets contain *more* than a magicians? A boy's.
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We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
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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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To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes.
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Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.
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So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books, and remembering the books.
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Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.
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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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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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Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.
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I started writing every day. I never stopped.
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We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth.
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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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Write what you love and love what you write.
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Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here.
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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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Creativity is a continual surprise.