Ray Bradbury Quotes
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There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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... bums on the outside, libraries inside.
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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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When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field.
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Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.
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I'm not a serious person, and I don't like serious people.
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It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.
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I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.
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No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it.
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Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.
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Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.
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Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.
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I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.
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Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.
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You're either in love with what you do, or you're not in love.
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The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.
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My job is to help you fall in love.
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It was a pleasure to burn.
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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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We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth.
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Most of my stories are ideas in action. In other words, I get a concept, and I let it run away. I find a character to act out the idea. And then the story takes care of itself.
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And besides, I like to cry. After I cry hard it's like it's morning again and I'm starting the day over.
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I have fun with ideas; I play with them.