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Ray Bradbury Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle Picture Quote #1

You’re peculiar, you’re aggravating, yet you’re easy to forgive. You say you’re seventeen?.. How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet you seem so much older at times. I can’t get over it Picture Quote #1

That’s the good part of dying; when you’ve nothing to lose, you run any risk you want Picture Quote #1

He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty. There was more than enough here to fill him. There would always be more than enough Picture Quote #1

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The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him Picture Quote #1

Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we’re hated so much? Picture Quote #1

Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two Picture Quote #1

I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they’re going Picture Quote #1

I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it’s immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it Picture Quote #1

This was all he wanted now. Some signs that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he needed to think all the things that must be thought Picture Quote #1

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I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths beneath my skin and behind my eye Picture Quote #1

I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn’t forget, I’m alive, I know I’m alive, I mustn’t forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that Picture Quote #1

Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures Picture Quote #1

I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot Picture Quote #1

That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you Picture Quote #1

Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry Picture Quote #1

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He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life Picture Quote #1

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour Picture Quote #1

Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip, for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in Picture Quote #1

The first thing you learn in life is you’re a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you’re the same fool Picture Quote #1

I’m not anyone, I’m just myself; whatever I am, I am something, and now I’m something you can’t help Picture Quote #1

The things that you do should be things that you love, and things that you love should be things that you do Picture Quote #1

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Sandwich outdoors isn’t a sandwich anymore. Tastes different than indoors, notice? Got more spice. Tastes like mint and pinesap. Does wonders for the appetite Picture Quote #1

Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there was it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away Picture Quote #1

He says I’m a regular onion! I keep him busy peeling away the layers Picture Quote #1

To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes Picture Quote #1

Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable people want only the faces of the full moon, wax, faces without pores, hairless, expressionless Picture Quote #1

Love what you do and do what you love. Don’t listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life Picture Quote #1

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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 (Ray Bradbury Quotes) 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 (Ray Bradbury Quotes) Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle (Ray Bradbury Quotes) You’re peculiar, you’re aggravating, yet you’re easy to forgive. You say you’re seventeen?.. How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet you seem so much older at times. I can’t get over it (Ray Bradbury Quotes) That’s the good part of dying; when you’ve nothing to lose, you run any risk you want (Ray Bradbury Quotes) He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty. There was more than enough here to fill him. There would always be more than enough (Ray Bradbury Quotes) The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him (Ray Bradbury Quotes) Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we’re hated so much? (Ray Bradbury Quotes) Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two (Ray Bradbury Quotes) I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they’re going (Ray Bradbury Quotes) I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it’s immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it (Ray Bradbury Quotes) This was all he wanted now. Some signs that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he needed to think all the things that must be thought (Ray Bradbury Quotes) I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths beneath my skin and behind my eye (Ray Bradbury Quotes) I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn’t forget, I’m alive, I know I’m alive, I mustn’t forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that (Ray Bradbury Quotes) Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures (Ray Bradbury Quotes) I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot (Ray Bradbury Quotes) That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you (Ray Bradbury Quotes) Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry (Ray Bradbury Quotes) He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life (Ray Bradbury Quotes) The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour (Ray Bradbury Quotes) Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip, for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in (Ray Bradbury Quotes) The first thing you learn in life is you’re a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you’re the same fool (Ray Bradbury Quotes) I’m not anyone, I’m just myself; whatever I am, I am something, and now I’m something you can’t help (Ray Bradbury Quotes) The things that you do should be things that you love, and things that you love should be things that you do (Ray Bradbury Quotes) Sandwich outdoors isn’t a sandwich anymore. Tastes different than indoors, notice? Got more spice. Tastes like mint and pinesap. Does wonders for the appetite (Ray Bradbury Quotes) Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there was it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away (Ray Bradbury Quotes) He says I’m a regular onion! I keep him busy peeling away the layers (Ray Bradbury Quotes) To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes (Ray Bradbury Quotes) Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable people want only the faces of the full moon, wax, faces without pores, hairless, expressionless (Ray Bradbury Quotes) Love what you do and do what you love. Don’t listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life (Ray Bradbury Quotes)

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