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Ray Bradbury Quotes

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

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

Inspirational, Learning, Jumping

Time is so strange and life is twice as strange.

Strange, Life Is

Reality and Fiction are different in that fiction has to make sense.

Reality, Different, Fiction

Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.

Treasure, Happens, This Day

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

Inspirational, Life, Struggle

FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Dec 08, 2014

You can make yourself happy or miserable - it's the same amount of effort.

Happiness, Effort, Miserable

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

Love, Life, Getting Older

"A man who won't forget Ray Bradbury" by Neil Gaiman, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2012.

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.

Hate, Party, Thinking

I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.

Writing, Cat, My Favorite

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

Dream, Fiction, Mankind

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

Inspirational, Beautiful, Writing

"Zen in the Art of Writing". Book by Ray Bradbury, 1990.

If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.

Positive, Motivation, Learning

Action is hope. There is no hope without action.

Action, No Hope

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

When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.

Heart, Men, Speak

Sunsets are loved because they vanish. Flowers are loved because they go. The dogs of the field and the cats of the kitchen are loved because soon they must depart. These are not the sole reasons, but at the heart of morning welcomes and afternoon laughters is the promise of farewell. In the gray muzzle of an old dog we see goodbye. In the tired face of an old friend we read long journeys beyond returns.

Goodbye, Dog, Morning

You fail only if you stop writing.

Writing, Failing, Inspiration To Write

I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools.

Taken, Men, Thinking

"Ray Bradbury Dead: Five Tech Predictions The Sci-Fi Author Got Right". www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. June 6, 2012.

The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes. And it seems like nothing - but when you're looking back ... well, it amounts to everything.

Life, Years, Doe

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.

Inspirational, Life, Dream

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

It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.

Stupid, Land, Mars

"Ray Bradbury: 'It's Lack That Gives Us Inspiration'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, nhpr.org. June 8, 2012.

If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.

Dark, Soul, Trying

Source: www.tangentonline.com

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

School, Library, Use

Don’t worry about things. Don’t push. Just do your work and you’ll survive. The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, to be loving and to be explosive. Out of that comes everything and you grow.

Motivational, Work, Worry

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

Writing, Acceptance, Rejection

You've been put on the world to love the act of being alive.

Alive, World

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