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Ray Bradbury Quotes - Page 15

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Orwell was dealing with communism and his disillusionment with communism in Russia and what he saw the communists do in Spain. His novel was a response to those political situations. Whereas I was interested in more

Orwell was dealing with communism and his disillusionment with communism in Russia and what he saw the communists do in Spain. His novel was a response to those political situations. Whereas I was interested in more things than the political atmosphere. I was considering the whole social atmosphere: the impact of TV and radio and the lack of education. I could see the coming event of schoolteachers not teaching reading anymore. The less they taught, the more you wouldn't need books.

Book, Teaching, Reading

A library is all the university you will ever need.

Library, Needs, University

Those who live in the best cliffs think they are better than us. That is always man's attitude when he has power.

Attitude, Men, Thinking

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

Action is hope. At the end of each day, when you've done your work, you lie there and think, Well, I'll be damned, I did this today. It doesn't matter how good it is, or how bad-you did it. At the end of the week you'll have a certain amount of accumulation. At the end of a year, you look back and say, I'll be damned, it's been a good year.

Lying, Thinking, Years

Well, after all, this is the age of the disposable tissue. Blow your nose on a person, wad them, flush them away, reach for another, blow, wad, flush. Everyone using everyone else's coattails. How are you supposed to root for the home team when you don't even have a program or know the names? For that matter, what color jersey's are they reading as they trot out to the feild?

Team, Reading, Home

Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever. So what do we do? We men turn terribly mean, because we can't hold to the world or ourselves or anything. We are blind to continuity, all breaks down, falls, melts, stops, rots, or runs away. So, since we cannot shape Time, where does that leave men? Sleepless. Staring.

Running, Hate, Fall

Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.

Trying, Predicting The Future, Predicting

And the lesson was this; sit in the sun, head down, within a prickly vine, in a flickery light, or open light, and the world will come to you. The sky will come in its time, bringing rain, and the earth will rise through you, from beneath, and make you rich and make you full.

Rain, Light, Sky

Ray Bradbury (2008). “Summer Morning, Summer Night”, Subterranean

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

Writing, Dies

Life should be touched, not strangled.

Life, Letting Go, Should

"Farewell Summer". Book by Ray Bradbury, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2006.

Programs like 'Jeopardy' and 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' are ridiculous. They're the stupidest shows in history. They're making us dumber. They don't give us information, they give us facts, factoids. You don't learn who Napoleon was and how he was motivated. You learn what year he was born, and when he died. That's useless.

Years, Giving, Useless

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.

Sex, Children, Father

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do-and they don’t. They have prejudices.

Teacher, Writing, College

Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.217, Melville House

I'm not a serious person, and I don't like serious people.

Serious Person, People, Serious

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

So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.

Fear, Scare, Rebel

FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Mar 21, 2015

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.

Beautiful, Book, Writing

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

Believe, Two, Together

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.

Book, Reading, Smell

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

Flower, Thinking, Sun

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

...passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun.

Moving, Darkness, Sun

Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.4, Hamilton Books

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

Past, Worry

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

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

Night, Bed, Three

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

Stars, Lying, Years

Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.

Writing, Gun, Knives

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

Reading, Knowledge, Civilization

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