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Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way. (Ray Bradbury)
It was a pleasure to burn. View quote
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Without the library, you have no civilization. View quote
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Next year's going to be even bigger, days will be brighter, nights longer and darker, more people dying, more babies born, and me in the middle of it all. View quote
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On the whole, the change had done Huxley a share of good. Death made him a handsomer man to deal with. You could talk to him now and he'd have to listen. View quote
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There must be something in books, something we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing. View quote
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I am the dreamer and the doer I the hearer and the knower I the giver and the taker I the sword and the wound of sword. If this be true, then let sword fall free from hand. I embrace myself. I laugh until I weep And weep until I smile... View quote
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The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts. View quote
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We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. View quote
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You make to die You are the dead You the assassin of yourself. View quote
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Nikos Kazantzakis says, "Live forever.” That's his social obligation. The Saviors of God celebrates life in the world. Any great work does that for you. All of Dickens says live life at the top of your energy. (Ray Bradbury)
People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. View quote
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Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. View quote
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I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done. View quote
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The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas. View quote
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Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. View quote
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Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge. View quote
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Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go. View quote
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Libraries raised me. View quote
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You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live. View quote
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Putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun. (Ray Bradbury)
A book is a loaded gun. View quote
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Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill. View quote
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There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves. View quote
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Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. View quote
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Ray Bradbury

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Photo: Alan Light, CC BY 2.0
Occupation: American Author
Born: August 22, 1920
Died: June 5, 2012
Quotes count: 531
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