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The story really struck me. I really believe there isn't a worse place in the world to be a child.


Adrian Bradbury

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RAY BRADBURY You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like...
RAY BRADBURY Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's...
RAY BRADBURY You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers alwa...
RAY BRADBURY Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.
RAY BRADBURY Orwell was dealing with communism and his disillusionment with communism in Russia and what he saw t...
RAY BRADBURY Sunsets are loved because they vanish.

Flowers are loved because they go.

The ...
RAY BRADBURY Why love the woman who is your wife? Her nose breathes in the air of a world that I know; therefore ...
RAY BRADBURY Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
RAY BRADBURY Sunsets we always liked because they only happen once and go away."
"But, Lena, that's sad." RAY BRADBURY No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now.
RAY BRADBURY I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down...
RAY BRADBURY The things that you do should be things that you love, and things that you love should be things tha...
RAY BRADBURY I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits ...
RAY BRADBURY When I was a boy in the midwest I used to go out and look at the stars at night and wonder about the...
RAY BRADBURY There was a silly damn bird called a phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a ...
RAY BRADBURY Le cose che voi cercate, Montag, sono su questa terra, ma il solo modo per cui l’uomo medio potrà...
RAY BRADBURY Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still wr...
RAY BRADBURY Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind ...
RAY BRADBURY First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.
RAY BRADBURY I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.
RAY BRADBURY Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is ...
RAY BRADBURY Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. ...
RAY BRADBURY A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, i...
RAY BRADBURY And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn’t crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I...
RAY BRADBURY I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't hav...
RAY BRADBURY If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned ...
RAY BRADBURY One day many years ago a man walked along and stood in the sound of the ocean on a cold sunless shor...
RAY BRADBURY Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially,...
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