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Facts quite often, I fear to confess, like lawyers, put me to sleep at noon. Not theories, however. Theories are invigorating and tonic. Give me an ounce of fact and I will produce you a ton of theory by tea this

Facts quite often, I fear to confess, like lawyers, put me to sleep at noon. Not theories, however. Theories are invigorating and tonic. Give me an ounce of fact and I will produce you a ton of theory by tea this afternoon. That is, after all, my job.

Ray Bradbury
Jobs, Sleep, Giving
Ray Bradbury (1973). “Mars and the mind of man”

It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.

Ray Bradbury
Inspiration, Giving, Fullness
"Ray Bradbury: 'It's Lack That Gives Us Inspiration'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 8, 2012.

The women in my life have all been librarians, English teachers, or booksellers. If they couldn't speak pidgin Tolstoy, articulate Henry James, or give me directions to Usher and Ox, it was no go. I have always longed for education, and pillow talk's the best.

Ray Bradbury
Teacher, Giving, Speak
Foreword to "A Passion for Books" by Harold Rabinowitz and Rob Kaplan, 1999.

We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give back to the universe. If we make landfall on another star system, we become immortal.

Ray Bradbury
Life, Stars, Giving
Speech to National School Board Association, 1995.

If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.

Ray Bradbury
Men, Two Sides, Giving
Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.29, Hamilton Books

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.

Ray Bradbury
Years, Giving, Useless

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.

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

Evil has only the power we give it.

Ray Bradbury
Evil, Giving

The world doesn't give a damn about you unless you do something. Those are the rules; I didn't make them. If you are lazy, if you don't get the work that you love done, the world won't care if you die tomorrow and go into the grave and are gone and forgotten forever.

Ray Bradbury
Giving, Forever, Lazy
Source: www.tangentonline.com

My stories are warnings; they're not predictions. If they were predictions, I wouldn't do them. Because then I'd be part of the doom-ridden psychology. But every time I name a problem, I try to give a solution.

Ray Bradbury
Names, Giving, Psychology
Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.131, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Forgive, I hope you won't be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind your desk, so near but far away, and, how can I say this, I used to think that you were Mrs. God, and that the library was a whole world, and that no matter what part of the world or what people or thing I wanted to see and read, you'd find and give it to me.

Ray Bradbury
Boys, Thinking, Giving

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.

Ray Bradbury
Years, Giving, Credit

I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the bushel and the peck, then they'll become better writers - to learn how to capsualize things and present them in metaphorical form.

Ray Bradbury
Giving, Young Writers, Metaphor
Source: www.jasonmarchi.com

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