Ray Bradbury Quotes
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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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... bums on the outside, libraries inside.
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Work. Don't Think. Relax.
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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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Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.
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The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are.
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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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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.
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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 started writing every day. I never stopped.
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Edgar Allen Poe really started me when I was 8. I fell in love with everything of his.
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My stories are warnings; they're not predictions. If they were predictions, I wouldn't do them. Because then I'd be part of the doom-ridden psychology. But every time I name a problem, I try to give a solution.
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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.
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And they were all, when their souls grew warm, poets.
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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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My job is to help you fall in love.
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Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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The blizzard doesn't last forever; it just seems so.
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I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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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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I have fun with ideas; I play with them.
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Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness