Ray Bradbury Quotes

• 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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• Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

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

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• Jump and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

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• You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

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

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• You fail only if you stop writing.

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• You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

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• You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

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• Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

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

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• We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

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• We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

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• Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

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• There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

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• The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.

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• Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

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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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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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