Ray Bradbury Quotes

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

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

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

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• Surprise is where creativity comes in.

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• Holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

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

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• First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him.

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

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

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

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• Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.

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

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• 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.

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  Topics in Life

• Everything that happens before Death is what counts.

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

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• I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we’ve dressed him up, or is it dressed him down?

  Ray Bradbury

  Topics in God

• 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

• Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!

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• It’s important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book… it’s perfume, it’s incense, it’s the dust of Egypt…

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• There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

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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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