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You're insane!" "I won't argue that point. (Ray Bradbury)
I'm numb and I'm tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if I'd been out in a pounding rain for forty-eight hours without an umbrella or a coat. I'm soaked to the skin with emotion. View quote
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What are you up to now?" "I'm sill crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it. View quote
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I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously." [(Robert Jacobs,, February 1976)]. View quote
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There must me something in books, things we can't imagine. View quote
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Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents. View quote
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You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl's better off dead. View quote
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Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer. View quote
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A computer does not smell... if a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better... And it stays with you forever. But the computer doesn't do that for you. I'm sorry. View quote
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Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed. View quote
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Is it because we're having so much fun at home we've forgotten the world? Is it because we're so rich and the rest of the world's so poor and we just don't care if they are? I've heard rumors; the world is starving, but we're well fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much? (Ray Bradbury)
And what happened next?” "Silence happened next. God, it was beautiful. View quote
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Will sensed a stir in Jim's house; Jim, too, with his fine dark antennae, must have felt the waters part high over town to let a Leviathan pass. View quote
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"Oh,” said Brunilla, the cow-searcher. "A man with wings.” That was how she took it. She was startled, yes, but she had never been hurt in her life, so she wasn't afraid of anyone, and it was a fancy thing to see a winged man and she was proud to meet him. View quote
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Most of the writers I know in any field, especially science fiction, grew up late. They're so interested in doing what they do and in their science, they don't think about other things. View quote
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We all love toys. I'm toy oriented. I write about toys. I've got a lot of toys. Hundreds of things. But computers are toys, and men like to mess around with smart dumb things. They feel creative. ... People are talking about the Internet as a creative tool for writers. I say, "B. S. Stay away from that. Stop talking to people around the world and get your work done." View quote
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There they go, off to Venus, just for the ride, thinking that they will find a planet like a seer's crystal, in which to read a miraculous future. What they'll find, instead, is the somewhat shopworn image of themselves. Mars is a mirror, not a crystal. View quote
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When I was 16, I saw six people die horribly in an accident. I walked home holding on to walls and trees. It took me months to begin to function again. So I don't drive. But whether I drive or not is irrelevant. The automobile is the most dangerous weapon in our society - cars kill more than wars do. More than 50,000 people will die this year because of them and nobody seems to notice. View quote
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"War!” The thought stood in Sim's brain. It shocked and beat at him. These men were running to fight, to kill, over there in those small black cliffs where other people lived. But why? Wasn't life short enough without fighting and killing? View quote
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I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are automatically for children. ... It's mutual delight and love made manifest. For one thing, kids love me because I write stories that tell them about their capacity for evil. I'm one of the few writers who lets you cleanse yourself that way. View quote
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Timothy looked at the deep ocean sky, trying to see Earth and the war and the ruined cities and the men killing each other since the day he was born. But he saw nothing. The war was as removed and far off as two flies battling to the death in the arch of a great high and silent cathedral. And just as senseless... "What are you looking at so hard, Dad?” "I was looking for Earthian logic, common sense, good government, peace, and responsibility.” "All that up there?” "No. I didn't find it. It's not there any more. Maybe it'll never be there again. Maybe we fooled ourselves that it was ever there.”. (Ray Bradbury)
I didn't write Fahrenheit 451 about us. I wrote it about Stalin and Mussolini and Hitler. ... I may not even talk about book banning if I don't feel like it. I don't prepare anything ahead. I have a dozen subjects to talk about because I write plays and poetry and essays, short stories and novels and screenplays and teleplays and operas. I'll get lost, and the audience will have a wonderful time. And I'll get a standing ovation, and they'll go home. View quote
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Why have you been so blind? Why have you never seen? The slave and master in one skin Is all your history, no more, no less, Confess! This is what you've been. View quote
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I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking. View quote
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The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. View quote
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