Ray Bradbury Quotes
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You don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them.
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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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I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.
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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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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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Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
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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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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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Work. Don't Think. Relax.
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We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe
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Write what you love and love what you write.
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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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The blizzard doesn't last forever; it just seems so.
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If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.
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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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We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while.
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The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are.
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Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. They're damn boring. They have no imagination, and they don't know how to imagine the future.
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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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We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
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Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.
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There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth.