Ray Bradbury Quotes
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I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.
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Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.
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Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.
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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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... bums on the outside, libraries inside.
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Beware the autumn people
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Who has more pockets than a magician? A boy. Whose pockets contain *more* than a magicians? A boy's.
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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
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Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.
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The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are.
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We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing... It is not books you need, it's some of the things that are in books. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.
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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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I don't know anything anymore
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Work. Don't Think. Relax.
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I have fun with ideas; I play with them.
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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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The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.
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Mars is empty now. Five hundred years from now, it'll be full of people.
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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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What can we writers learn from lizards, lift from birds? In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought. In delay comes the effort for a style, instead of leaping upon truth which is the only style worth deadfalling or tiger-trapping.
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People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way.
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Every day is Christmas Day to a dog.
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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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Without the library, you have no civilization.