Ray Bradbury Short Quotes

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

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All silence is.
All emptiness.
And now:
The dawn.

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I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

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Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.

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Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.

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Night had come on like the closing of a great but gentle eye.

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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

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What church could compete with the fireworks of the pure soul?

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I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

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Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.

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You make to die
You are the dead
You the assassin of yourself.

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

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

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If you're reluctant to weep, you won't live a full and complete life.

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

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I feel like I've been saving up a lot of things, and I don't know what.

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And what happened next?
Silence happened next. God, it was beautiful.

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If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you, and you'll never learn.

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

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Forget them. Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean.

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

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A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it.

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Suddenly the day was gone, night came out from under each tree and spread.

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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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The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.

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We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.

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The stars are yours, if you have the head, the hands, and the heart for them.

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Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch.

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Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.

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It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.

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