Ray Bradbury Quotes
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... bums on the outside, libraries inside.
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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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Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness
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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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You're either in love with what you do, or you're not in love.
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And suddenly everything, absolutely everything, was there.
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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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You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You've got to learn how to write!
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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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Every day is Christmas Day to a dog.
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All isn't well with the world.
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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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The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.
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My job is to help you fall in love.
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The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are.
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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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We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
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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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I have fun with ideas; I play with them.
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If someone sends you a love letter you've got to answer back.
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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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...passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun.
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If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.