Martian Chronicles Quotes

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

  Ray Bradbury

  Confidence, Courage, Travel

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

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Struggle

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Dec 08, 2014

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• Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Art

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.76, Hamilton Books

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• We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things. The only reason we didn't set up hot-dog stands in the midst of the Egyptian temple of Karnak is because it was out of the way and served no large commercial purpose.

  Ray Bradbury

  Beautiful, Dog, Men

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• The rockets set the bony meadows afire, turned rock to lava, turned wood to charcoal, transmuted water to steam, made sand and silica into green glass which lay like shattered mirrors reflecting the invasion, all about. The rockets came like drums, beating in the night. The rockets came like locusts, swarming and settling in blooms of rosy smoke.

  Ray Bradbury

  Night, Glasses, Mirrors

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• Can't you recognize the human in the inhuman?

  Ray Bradbury

  Humans, Inhuman

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Illustrated Man”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• The Martians were there - in the canal - reflected in the water.... The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water.

  Ray Bradbury

  Long, Water, Silent

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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• Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.

  Ray Bradbury

  Life, Travel, Adventure

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.76, Hamilton Books

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

  Joseph Brodsky

  Education, Reading, Book

  "The Balancing Act: Mastering the Competing Demands of Leadership". Book by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Al Switzler and Ron McMillan, 1996.

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• Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.

  Ray Bradbury

  People, Made, Young

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.

  Ray Bradbury

  Beautiful, Men, Earth

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves

  Ray Bradbury

  Dark, Past, Shadow

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion , now .

  Ray Bradbury

  Fighting, Killers, Amount

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream.

  Ray Bradbury

  Life, Dream, Rest In Peace

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.76, Hamilton Books

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• Stuff your eyes with wonder.

  Ray Bradbury

  Life, Travel, Adventure

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.76, Hamilton Books

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• It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.

  Ray Bradbury

  Children, Space, Philosopher

  Ray Bradbury (2013). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• I'm not anyone, I'm just myself; whatever I am, I am something, and now I'm something you can't help.

  Ray Bradbury

  Helping

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• Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other people's advice that they needed burning. Otherwise you'd have realized what I was going to do to you when we came down here a moment ago. Ignorance is fatal, Mr. Garrett.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Reading, Ignorance

  Ray Bradbury (2000). “Bradbury Stories”

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• We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will.

  Ray Bradbury

  Imagination, Miracle, Matter

  Ray Bradbury (2000). “Bradbury Stories”

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• If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

  Ray Bradbury

  Miracle, Alive, Universe

  Ray Bradbury (2000). “Bradbury Stories”

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• I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite. There!

  Ray Bradbury

  Men, Ironic, Midst

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion now. It's learning how to breathe all over again. And how to lie in the sun getting a tan, letting the sun work into you. And how to hear music and how to read a book. What does your civilization offer?

  Ray Bradbury

  Lying, Book, Fighting

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing.

  Ray Bradbury

  Death, Loss, Thinking

  Ray Bradbury (2017). “Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

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