Ray Bradbury quotes - page 9

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. (Ray Bradbury)

What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?

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And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.

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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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She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why.... Luckily, queer ones like her don't happen often.

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How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?

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I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago. For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last. Maybe it's because I've done a rash thing and don't want to look the coward to you.

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The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.

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Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.

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Beware the autumn people.

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Creativity is a continual surprise. (Ray Bradbury)

The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.

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Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.

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I'm interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them.

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He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.

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Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic.

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In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.

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When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die.

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Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.

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Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.

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Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this so the sadness could not hurt. (Ray Bradbury)

.. holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

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Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.

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To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start.

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Work. Don't Think. Relax.

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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
Wikipedia: Ray Bradbury

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