Ray Bradbury Quotes

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  We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

  Ray Bradbury

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Trick, Beautiful, Writing

• In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize.

  Ray Bradbury

  Topics in Fear

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

  Ray Bradbury

  Topics in Friendship

• To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.

  Ray Bradbury

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reading

• Surprise is where creativity comes in.

  Ray Bradbury

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Inspiration

• We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe.

  Ray Bradbury

  Topics in Art

• Holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

  Ray Bradbury

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reading
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  First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him.

  Ray Bradbury

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hero, Follow

• If you read fast and read all, maybe some of the sand will stay in the sieve.

  Ray Bradbury

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Books
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  There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.

  Ray Bradbury

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Library, School
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  Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.

  Ray Bradbury

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Learning, Touched
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  There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

  Ray Bradbury

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reading, Crime, Book, Books

• Where robot mice and robot men, I said, run round in robot towns.

  Ray Bradbury

  Topics in Uncategorized
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  Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

  Ray Bradbury

  Topics in Future, Past

  Tags in Books, Libraries

• The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.

  Ray Bradbury

  Topics in Religion

• Too late, I found you can’t wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.

  Ray Bradbury

  Topics in Life

• Everything that happens before Death is what counts.

  Ray Bradbury

  Topics in Life

• We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom.

  Ray Bradbury

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Inspiration

• Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.

  Ray Bradbury

  Topics in Art, Fear

• Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

  Ray Bradbury

  Topics in Inspirational

Ray Bradbury (114)

Birth:	22nd August, 1920
Death:	5th June, 2012
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Writer

About

Ray Douglas Bradbury was an American fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery fiction writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and for the science fiction and horror stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man, Bradbury was one of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers. Many of Bradbury's works have been adapted into television shows or films.

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