Ray Bradbury Quotes

• If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

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• I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

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• I’m not a serious person, and I don’t like serious people.

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• I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

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• The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

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• I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.

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• There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

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• Everything is generated through your own will power.

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• My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.

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• It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.

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• A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.

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• I hate all politics. I don’t like either political party. One should not belong to them – one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

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• I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

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• Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We’ve been so busy damning ourselves for years. We’ve done it all, and yet we don’t take credit for it.

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• If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

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• We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

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• Life is “trying things to see if they work.”

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• Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

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• My stories run up and bite me on the leg – I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

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• Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.

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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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