Ray Bradbury Quotes

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My characters talk to one another, and when it reaches a certain pitch of excitement I jump out of bed and run and trap them before they are gone.

Ray Bradbury
I believe, said the first lady, that our souls are in our hands. For we do everything to the world with our hands. Sometimes I think we don't use our hands half enough; it's certain we don't use our heads.

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A single face turned upward toward all Time
One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace.

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We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam.

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Important thing is not the me that's lying here, but the me that's sitting on the edge of the bed looking back at me, and the me that's downstairs cooking supper, or out in the garage under the car, or in the library reading. All the new parts, they count. I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family.

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Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.

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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.

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He says I'm a regular onion! I keep him busy peeling away the layers.

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You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.

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Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for... are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book.

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Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that. On occasion? Sure. As relaxation? Great. But not full time— And a lot of people are doing that. And while they're doing that, I'll go ahead and write another novel.

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Here at this far lost end of the continent, where the trail wagons had stopped and the people with them....

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The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are.

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He stood very straight and thought of nothing, or at least thought of thinking nothing.

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At the top of your lungs, shout and listen to the echoes. You must live life at the top of your voice!

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Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can nowadays, is happier than any man who tries to slide-rule, measure, and equate the universe, which just won't be measured or equated without making man feel bestial and lonely.

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The merry-go-round was running, yes, but... It was running backward. The small calliope inside the carousel machinery rattle-snapped its nervous-stallion shivering drums, clashed its harvest-moon cymbals, toothed its castanets, and throatily choked and sobbed its reeds, whistles, and baroque flutes.

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Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

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All floated upon an evening carrousel, with fitful drifts of music wafting up here and there, and voices calling and murmuring from houses that were whitely haunted by television.

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You don't question Providence. If you can't have the reality, a dream is just as good.

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Life is like underwear, should be changed twice a day.

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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…

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I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.

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I can write faster on a typewriter than you can on a computer. I do 120 words a minute, and you can't do that on a computer.

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Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.

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