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• 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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• We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.

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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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• It doesn’t matter what you do…so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that’s like you after you take your hands away.

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• We have our arts so we won’t die of Truth.

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

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• Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand.

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• It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.

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• Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.

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• Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.

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• The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

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• Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.

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

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• You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

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• You don’t have to turn on the TV set. You don’t have to work on the Internet. It’s up to you.

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• Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

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• When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

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• When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

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• We’re all dreamers.

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• We have too many cellphones. We’ve got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

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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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