Ray Bradbury Quotes
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We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
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We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
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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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Kerosene," he said, because the silence had lengthened, "is nothing but perfume to me.
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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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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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We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while.
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If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.
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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 don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them.
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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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But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again.
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There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
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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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Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.
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The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.
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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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Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here.
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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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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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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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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.