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Ray Bradbury Quotes - Page 14

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If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.

If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.

Men, Two Sides, Giving

Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.29, Hamilton Books

We meet on the common ground of an uncommon age and share out our gifts of dark and light, good and bad, simple joy and not so simple sorrow.

Dark, Simple, Light

Ray Bradbury (1990). “Medicine for Melancholy”, Spectra

The autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement in such a way as to make the girl who was moving there seem fixed to a sliding walk, letting the motion of the wind and the leaves carry her forward. [...] The trees overhead made a great sound of letting down their dry rain.

Girl, Rain, Moving

FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Jan 27, 2016

Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about.

Fun, Talking, Civilization

Brown Daily Herald, March 24, 1995.

The ability to "fantasize" is the ability to survive. It's wonderful to speak about this subject because there have been so many wrong-headed people dealing with it.... The so-called realists are trying to drive us insane, and I refuse to be driven insane.... We survive by fantasizing. Take that away from us and the whole damned human race goes down the drain.

Race, People, Insane

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.

Hands, Long, Legacy

"Fahrenheit 451". Book by Ray Bradbury, 1953.

Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

Inspirational, Life, Being Single

FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Feb 14, 2017

Without the library, you have no civilization.

Civilization, Library

It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt.

Book, Egypt, Dust

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Children, Science, Disrespectful

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered...sealed away for opening on a January day with snow falling fast and the sun unseen for weeks.

Summer, Fall, Wine

Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?" "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.

Relationship, I Like You, Years

FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Nov 27, 2015

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

Beautiful, Men, Earth

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

Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.

Drinking, Beer, Intellectual

Ray Bradbury (1955). “THE OCTOBER COUNTRY”

We've let too much time go by. We've been busy with war instead of being busy with peace. And that's what space travel is all about. It's all about peace and exploration and wonder and beauty.

War, Space, Too Much

Source: www.foxnews.com

My tunes and numbers are here. They have filled my years, the years when I refused to die. And in order to do that I wrote, I wrote, I wrote, at noon or 3:00 A.M. So as not to be dead.

Order, Years, Numbers

Ray Bradbury (2013). “The Illustrated Man”, p.6, Harper Collins

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.

Book, Names, Telephones

Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.97, Melville House

Write what you love and love what you write.

Good Morning, Writing, Doing What You Love

"Ray Bradbury continues his great love, writing". Interview With Ryan E. Smith, www.toledoblade.com. February 15, 2009.

No person ever died that had a family.

Persons, Died

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

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.

Book, Egypt, Smell

God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.

Friendship, Inspiring, Clay

Ray Bradbury (2013). “Something Wicked This Way Comes”, p.18, Harper Collins

The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot.

Years, Missing, Criticism

Facts are not interesting to me.

Interesting, Facts

Venice was and is full of lost places where people put up for sale the last worn bits of their souls, hoping no one will buy.

Venice, People, Soul

Ray Bradbury (2013). “Death is a Lonely Business”, p.17, HarperCollins UK

The Lord is not serious. In fact, it is a little hard to know just what else He is except loving. And love has to do with humor, doesn't it? For you cannot love someone unless you put up with him, can you? And you cannot put up with someone constantly unless you can laugh at him. Isn't that true? And certainly we are rediculous little animals wallowing in the fudge bowl, and God must love us all the more because we appeal to his humor.

Animal, Laughing, Facts

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