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We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

Life, Philosophy, Imagination

Ray Bradbury (1975). “Long after midnight”

Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.

Fall, Found You, Perfect

Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes: a novel”, Bantam

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

Creativity, Imagination, Creative

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

Writing, Stories, Week

A book is a loaded gun.

Book, Gun, Loaded

Ray Bradbury (2011). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.229, Simon and Schuster

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Inspiring, Trust, Fall

We are the witnesses to the miracle. We are put here by creation, by God....We're here to be the audience to the magnificent. It is our job to celebrate.

Spiritual, Jobs, Godly

In order to be creative, you don't have to be original.

Order, Creative, Be Creative

You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

Thinking Of You, Writing, Creativity

An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.

Running, Athlete, Order

If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both-you must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Crazy, Writing, Reality

Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.

Writing, Culture, Treasure

"Zen in the Art of Writing". Book by Ray Bradbury, 1992.

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.

Death, Loss, Thinking

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

I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.

Space, Individuality, Dinosaurs

FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Sep 24, 2015

Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.

Triumph, Television, Disaster

Source: www.tygersofwrath.com

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

Civilization, Imagination, Important

If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

Writing, Groove, Feudalism

Get rid of those friends of yours who make fun of you and don't believe in you. And when you leave here tonight, go home, make a phone call and fire them. Anyone that doesn't believe in you and your future, to hell with them.

Fun, Believe, Home

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.

Writing, Careers, Inspire

Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.

Writing, Intuition, Way

Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.124, Univ. Press of Mississippi

The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.

Believe, Thinking, Ideas

FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Apr 11, 2014

The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It's all crap.

Tv News, Tvs, Danger

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything.

Love Is, Answers, Reason

Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness

Thinking, Sometimes, Consciousness

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.

Night, People, Political

"The Murderer". Short story by Ray Bradbury, 1953.

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