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Ray Bradbury Quotes - Page 18

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And some days, he went on, were days of hearing every trump and trill of the universe. Some days were good for tasting and some for touching. And some days were good for all the senses at once. This day now, he nodded,

And some days, he went on, were days of hearing every trump and trill of the universe. Some days were good for tasting and some for touching. And some days were good for all the senses at once. This day now, he nodded, smelled as if a great and nameless orchard had grown up overnight beyond the hills to fill the entire visible land with its warm freshness. The air felt like rain, but there were no clouds.

Rain, Land, Clouds

Ray Bradbury (2012). “Dandelion Wine”, p.5, HarperCollins UK

Sandwich outdoors isn’t a sandwich anymore. Tastes different than indoors, notice? Got more spice. Tastes like mint and pinesap. Does wonders for the appetite.

Cute, Doe, Different

Ray Bradbury (2012). “Dandelion Wine”, p.8, HarperCollins UK

Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there was it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away.

Sleep, Animal, Tree

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

Savory...that's a swell word. And Basil and Betel. Capsicum. Curry. All great. But Relish, now, Relish with a capital R. No argument, that' the best.

Argument, Basil, Curry

You'd type like hell. I spent $9.80 and in nine days I had Fahrenheit 451.

Nine, Hell, Type

Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch.

Book, Blood, Ideas

Ray Bradbury (1951). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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?

Lying, Book, Fighting

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

They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it meant to own a world and how big a world really was.

Leadership, Kings, Trying

Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

I'll tell you," said Beatty, smiling at his cards. "That made you for a little while a drunkard. Read a few lines and off you go over the cliff. Bang, you're ready to blow up the world, chop off heads, knock down women and children, destroy authority. I know. I've been through it all.

Children, Blow, Bangs

Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

For John was running, and this was terrible. Because if you ran, time ran. You yelled and screamed and raced and rolled and tumbled and all of a sudden the sun was gone and the whistle was blowing and you were on your long way home to supper. When you weren't looking, the sun got around behind you! The only way to keep things slow was to watch everything and do nothing! You could stretch a day to three days, sure, just by watching!

Running, Home, Long

I believe in Darwin and God together.

Believe, Together, I Believe

Interview with Ken Kelley, Playboy, www.raybradbury.com. May 1996.

A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it.

Book, Hands, Smell

Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.273, Melville House

If you're reluctant to weep, you won't live a full and complete life.

Complete Life, Reluctant, Ifs

"Personal Lessons From Futurist Ray Bradbury on Crying, Escaping, Laughing" by Mick Mortlock, www.oregonlive.com. June 06, 2012.

When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die.

Stars, Fear, Boys

FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Mar 23, 2015

But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes

Hero, Men, Knowing

Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.

Book, Law, Laughed

Ray Bradbury (1951). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive.

Alive, Pay, Life Is

Speech at Eureka College, 1997.

How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike.

Expression, Hands, Two

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

Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?

Light, People, Impossible

And they were all, when their souls grew warm, poets.

Soul, Relaxation, Poet

You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.

Fields, Young

Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry.

Confused, Cry, Let Me

The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen, and the sun burnt Time, that meant everything burnt!

Axes, Years, Circles

"Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury, (p. 141), 1953.

Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.

Juvenile, Delinquents

Ray Bradbury (1951). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, Simon and Schuster

You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.

College, Everyday, Library

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