Ray Bradbury Quotes
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It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.
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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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I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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And suddenly everything, absolutely everything, was there.
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... bums on the outside, libraries inside.
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Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness
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We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
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You're either in love with what you do, or you're not in love.
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He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for what seemed a long while and she talked about this and she talked about that and it was only words, like the words he had heard once in a nursery at a friend's house, a two-year-old child building word patters, like jargon, making pretty sounds in the air.
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The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are.
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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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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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Most of my stories are ideas in action. In other words, I get a concept, and I let it run away. I find a character to act out the idea. And then the story takes care of itself.
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The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events.
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We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth.
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If someone sends you a love letter you've got to answer back.
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The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.
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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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...passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun.
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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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If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.
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I have fun with ideas; I play with them.
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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.