Ray Bradbury Quotes - Page 16

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• To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must write dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next.

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  Beautiful, Book, Writing

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• So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books, and remembering the books.

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  Book, Reading, Smell

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• Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.

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  Reading, Knowledge, Civilization

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• Writing is like sex. You have to save your love for the love object. If you go around spouting about your idea, there'll be no "charge" left. You can't father children that way.

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  Sex, Children, Father

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• Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together.

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  Believe, Two, Together

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• Not to write, for many of us, is to die.

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  Writing, Dies

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• A day without writing was a little death.

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  Writing, Littles

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• I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour.

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  Flower, Thinking, Sun

  Ray Bradbury (1980). “The Stories of Ray Bradbury”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• This is the result of six billion years of evolution. Tonight, we have given the lie to gravity.We have reached for the stars.

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  Stars, Lying, Years

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• Do three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay.

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  Night, Bed, Three

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• You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode.

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  Past, Worry

  Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2014). “Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview: And other Conversations”, p.16, Melville House

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• Miraculously, smoke curled out of his own mouth, his nose, his ears, his eyes, as if his soul had been extinguished within his lungs at the very moment the sweet pumpkin gave up its incensed ghost.

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  Sweet, Eye, Soul

  Ray Bradbury (2015). “The Halloween Tree”, p.126, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• For these beings, fall is ever the normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from? The dust. Where do they go? The grave. Does blood stir their veins? No: the night wind. What ticks in their head? The worm. What speaks from their mouth? The toad. What sees from their eye? The snake. What hears with their ear? The abyss between the stars. They sift the human storm for souls, eat flesh of reason, fill tombs with sinners. They frenzy forth. Such are the autumn people.

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  Stars, Fall, Eye

  "Something Wicked This Way Comes". Book by Ray Bradbury. Chapter 38, 1962.

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• Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

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  Earth, Journalism

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• I believe in creative failing - to contine to write poems that fail and fail and fail until a day comes when you've got a thousand poems behind you and you're relaxed and you finally write a good poem.

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  Believe, Writing, Creative

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are.

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  Dangerous, Knows, Can Do

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.124, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• At the top of your lungs, shout and listen to the echoes. You must live life at the top of your voice!

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  Live Life, Echoes, Voice

  Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.258, Melville House

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• Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter. Longchenpa Let's stuff our eyes with wonder, let's live as if we'd drop dead in ten seconds. Let's see the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

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  Dream, Rest In Peace, Laughter

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• I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family. I'll be around a long time. A thousand years from now, a whole township of my offspring will be biting sour apples in the gumwood shade.

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  Family, Years, Apples

  Ray Bradbury (1980). “The Stories of Ray Bradbury”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics, ethics, aesthetics on any level, art...it's just total! It's a complete commitment to the whole human race on all the Earth. That's what science fiction is about.

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  Art, Reading, Commitment

  Source: www.tangentonline.com

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• Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.

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  Library, Use, University

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• There are two races of people -- men and women -- no matter what women's libbers would have you pretend. The male is motivated by toys and science because men are born with no purpose in the universe except to procreate. There is lots of time to kill beyond that. They've got to find work. Men have no inherent center to themselves beyond procreating. Women, however, are born with a center. They can create the universe, mother it, teach it, nurture it. Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.

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  Mother, Women, Race

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

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  Mania, Paid Off, Paid

  "From the archive: Ray Bradbury on life, love and Buck Rogers". Interview with John Ezard, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2012.

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• The only good writing is intuitive writing. It would be a big bore if you knew where it was going. It has to be exciting, instantaneous and it has to be a surprise. Then it all comes blurting out and it’s beautiful. I’ve had a sign by my typewriter for 25 years now which reads, ‘DON’T THINK!’

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  Beautiful, Writing, Thinking

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• If someone sends you a love letter you've got to answer back.

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  Answers, Letters, Love Letter

  Source: www.jasonmarchi.com

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