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Ray Bradbury Quotes - Page 20

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What church could compete with the fireworks of the pure soul?

What church could compete with the fireworks of the pure soul?

Soul, Church, Fireworks

Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Illustrated Man”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

This was all he wanted now. Some signs that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he needed to think all the things that must be thought.

Thinking, Long, Giving

Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.69, Hamilton Books

When you're older you want to learn from other people.

People, Want

With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century.

Book, Hands, Firsts

A computer does not smell ... if a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better… And it stays with you forever. But the computer doesn’t do that for you. I’m sorry.

Sorry, Book, Smell

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

Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, know power, accept, and need not mention it. Why speak of time when you are Time, and shape the universal moments, as they pass, into warmth and action?

Needs, Shapes, Nests

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

My gosh, if you’re going away, we got a million things to talk about! All the things we would’ve talked about next month, the month after! Praying mantises, zeppelins, acrobats, sword swallowers!

Going Away, Next, Months

People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it.

People, Want, Ask Me

"Beyond 1984: The People Machines". Book by Ray Bradbury, 1979.

Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day.

Sports, Morning, Hero

"Medicine For Melancholy" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2008.

God, here and there, makes madness a calling.

Here And There, Calling, Madness

There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.

Book, Reason, Ifs

"At 80, Ray Bradbury Still Fighting the Future He Foresaw" by Roger Moore, The Peoria Journal Star, www.raybradbury.com. August 2000.

Joy is the grace we say to God.

Joy, Grace

Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.130, Melville House

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will.

Imagination, Miracle, Matter

Ray Bradbury (2000). “Bradbury Stories”

I've always known that the quality of love was the mind, even though the body sometimes refuses this knowledge. The body lives for itself. It lives only to feed and wait for the night. It's essentially nocturnal. But what of the mind which is born of the sun, William, and must spend thousands of hours of a lifetime awake and aware? Can you balance off the body, that pitiful, selfish thing of night against a whole lifetime of sun and intellect? I don't know.

Selfish, Night, Waiting

"Dandelion Wine". Book by Ray Bradbury, p. 151, 1957.

You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.

Looks, Paper, Able

"Ray Bradbury Is on Fire!". Interview with James Hibberd, www.salon.com. August 29, 2001.

Evil has only the power we give it.

Evil, Giving

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.

Love, Writing, People

I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.

Labels, Fiction, Fantasy

Roosevelt Intermediate School, Westfield, NJ #3 Interview, lists.topica.com. March 23, 2005.

In our time the search for extraterrestrial life will eventually change our laws, our religions, our philosophies, our arts, our recreations, as well as our sciences. Space, the mirror, waits for life to come look for itself there.

Art, Philosophy, Mirrors

Your mind's always juggling, isn't it?-mirrors, torches, plates.

Mirrors, Mind, Torches

Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Illustrated Man”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever.

Space, Forever, Want

Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.153, Univ. Press of Mississippi

I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion , now .

Fighting, Killers, Martian Chronicles

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

That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and WORTH the doing.

Giving Up, Men, Important

Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.74, Hamilton Books

Dad," said Will, his voice very faint. "Are you a good person?" "To you and your mother, yes, I try. But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime, Will. I know everything worth knowing about myself-" "And, adding it all up...?" "The sum? As they come and go, and I mostly sit very still and tight, yes, I'm all right.

Mother, Dad, Hero

I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living too much in the past - a combination of both.

Past, Two, Half

"Ray Bradbury, The Art of Fiction No. 203". Interview with Sam Geller, www.theparisreview.org. 2010.

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