Ray Bradbury Quotes
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I'm not a serious person, and I don't like serious people.
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We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
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...passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun.
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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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It was a pleasure to burn.
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Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.
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Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness
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We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth.
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Mars is empty now. Five hundred years from now, it'll be full of people.
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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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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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If someone sends you a love letter you've got to answer back.
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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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The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.
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The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are.
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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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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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I don't know anything anymore
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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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There was her face, like a summer peach, beautiful and warm, and the light of the candles reflected in her dark eyes. He held his breath. The entire world waited and held its breath.
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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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My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.
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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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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.