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Ray Bradbury Quotes - Page 29

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Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.

Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.

Life, Travel, Adventure

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

He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like a delicate insect within a chrysalis, waiting and waiting.

Skeletons, Waiting, Philosopher

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

I have fun with ideas; I play with them.

Fun, Play, Ideas

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

Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.

Balance, Fiction, Cliffs

Introduction to "The Circus of Dr. Lao" by Charles G. Finney, 1956.

So it was the hand that started it all . . . His hands had been infected, and soon it would be his arms . . . His hands were ravenous.

Hands, Would Be, Arms

Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.19, Hamilton Books

The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.

Real, Writing, Rejection

I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.

Book, Madness, Wit

Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

I've never worked a day in my life. The joy of writing has propelled me from day to day and year to year. I want you to envy me, my joy. Get out of here tonight and say: 'Am I being joyful?' And if you've got a writer's block, you can cure it this evening by stopping whatever you're writing and doing something else. You picked the wrong subject.

Block, Writing, Years

The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

Library, World, Want

If you had your way you’d pass a law to abolish all the little jobs, the little things. But then you’d leave yourselves nothing to do between the big jobs and you’d have a devil of a time thinking up things to do so you wouldn’t go crazy. Instead of that, why not let nature show you a few things? Cutting grass and pulling weeds can be a way of life, son.

Weed, Jobs, Crazy

But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at and read.

Running, Circles, Library

Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.293, Melville House

I am a child of the poisonous wind that copulated with the East River on an oil-slick, garbage infested midnight. I turn about on my own parentage. I inoculate against those very biles that brought me to light. I am a serum born of venoms. I am the antibody of all Time. I am the Cure. You do of the City, do you not? Manhattan is your punisher, let me be you shield.

Children, Light, Wind

It could reach up and grab the moon.

Moon

Ray Bradbury (1971). “The golden apples of the sun”, Greenwood Pub Group

I’ve often been accused of being too emotional and sentimental, but I believe in honest sentiment, and the need to purge ourselves at certain times, which is ancient. Men would live at least five or six more years and not have ulcers if they could cry better.

Believe, Men, Emotional

Tangent Interview, www.tangentonline.com. June 9, 2012.

I’m really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don’t remember!

Alive, Remember, Ifs

Ray Bradbury (2012). “Dandelion Wine”, p.13, HarperCollins UK

Write. Don't think. Relax.

Writing, Thinking, Relax

I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.

Art, Theater, Stage

Are you happy?" she [Clarisse] said. "Am I what?" he [Montag] cried. But she was gone- running in the moonlight. Her front door shut gently.

Running, Doors, Gone

I’m ALIVE. Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don’t watch. Then all of a sudden you look and see what you’re doing and it’s the first time, really.

Thinking, Watches, Looks

I was only kicking down the Christmas tree to get the star on top.

Stars, Tree, Kicking

We should go to the moon and prepare a base to fire a rocket off to Mars and then go to Mars and colonize Mars. Then when we do that, we will live forever.

Moon, Fire, Forever

"Ray Bradbury hates big government: ‘Our country is in need of a revolution’", herocomplex.latimes.com. August 16, 2010.

They walked still farther and the girl said, "Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to start them?" No. Houses have always been fireproof, take my word for it." Strange. I heard once that a long time ago houses used to burn by accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames.

Girl, Fire, Flames

Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down?

Son, Peppermint, Way

Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

I wonder how many men, hiding their youngness, rise as I do, Saturday mornings, filled with the hope that Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam and Daffy Duck will be there waiting as our one true always and forever salvation?

Morning, Men, Ducks

"Why Cartoons Are Forever". articles.latimes.com. December 03, 1989.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

School, High School, Self Education

"A Literary Legend Fights for a Local Library" by Jennifer Steinhauer, www.nytimes.com. June 19, 2009.

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