Ray Bradbury Quotes
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I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.
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The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.
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The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.
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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
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The important thing is to be in love with something.
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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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Beware the autumn people
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The things that you do should be things that you love, and things that you love should be things that you do.
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Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much?
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Work. Don't Think. Relax.
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A conglomerate heap of trash, that's what I am. But it burns with a high flame.
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Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.
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Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.
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An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
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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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You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.
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I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.
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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 need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.
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We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
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All isn't well with the world.
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... bums on the outside, libraries inside.
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You don't pay any attention to anything anyone else says, no opinions. The important thing is to explode with a story, to emotionalize a story, not to think it. You start thinking - the story's going to die on its feet.