Ray Bradbury Quotes
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Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.
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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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...passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun.
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The blizzard doesn't last forever; it just seems so.
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I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.
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If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.
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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 have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
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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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You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it.
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There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.
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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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If someone sends you a love letter you've got to answer back.
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We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth.
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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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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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My job is to help you fall in love.
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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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Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.
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The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.
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We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
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Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.
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It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.
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It was a pleasure to burn.