Ray Bradbury Quotes
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The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
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You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.
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Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.
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The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.
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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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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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Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. They're damn boring. They have no imagination, and they don't know how to imagine the future.
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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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Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it.
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All isn't well with the world.
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Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.
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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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We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while.
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Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.
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There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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This is the result of six billion years of evolution. Tonight, we have given the lie to gravity.We have reached for the stars.
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What do you do, go around trying everything once?' he asked. 'Sometimes twice.
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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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I have fun with ideas; I play with them.
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We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth.
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Work. Don't Think. Relax.
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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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Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
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Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.