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Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race. — Buzz Aldrin

Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God. Today, thanks to them, you can stay happy all the time, — Ray Bradbury

Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head. — Ray Bradbury

So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all. — Ray Bradbury

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies. — Ray Bradbury

Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer. — Ray Bradbury

Ignorance is fatal. — Ray Bradbury

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people. — Ray Bradbury

First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down. RAY BRADBURY Prolific American author of science fiction and fantasy — Jack Canfield

Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury — T.K. Thorne

Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you? — Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury's entire oeuvre exemplifies the crumbling of SCIENCE FICTION into the open interplay of science fiction, fantasy and horror. — Hal Duncan

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness. — Ray Bradbury

Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers. — Ray Bradbury

Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers. — Ray Bradbury

Here at this far lost end of the continent, where the trail wagons had stopped and the people with them ... — Ray Bradbury

I don't do research. I never have. — Ray Bradbury

It is a wise writer who knows his own subconscious. — Ray Bradbury

I'll be damned if death wears my sadness as glad rags. — Ray Bradbury

You don't have to burn books, do you, if the world starts to fill up with nonreaders, nonlearners, non-knowers? — Ray Bradbury

Don't see so much, Chris, your mind is too big for your body.' I got a war on between a mind that wants things my body can't give it." Priory — Ray Bradbury

and sleeping put an end to summer, 1928, — Ray Bradbury

How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure. — Ray Bradbury

Because of what I loved at 7, I still get jobs in my 60's. Guess who got the job? Crazy Ray.
Ray Bradbury — Sherri Rabinowitz

I don't know anything any more, he said, and let a sleep lozenge dissolve on his tongue — Ray Bradbury

She was as rational as you and I, more so perhaps, and we burnt her. — Ray Bradbury

Life is like underwear, should be changed twice a day. — Ray Bradbury

I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me. — 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

Who has more pockets than a magician?
A boy.
Whose pockets contain *more* than a magicians?
A boy's. — Ray Bradbury

It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes. — Ray Bradbury

Jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down. Over — Ray Bradbury

Edgar Allen Poe really started me when I was 8. I fell in love with everything of his. — Ray Bradbury

Yes, Mr. Douglas, insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage." The — Ray Bradbury

Evil has only the power we give it. — Ray Bradbury

She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why ... Luckily, queer ones like her don't happen often. — Ray Bradbury

Fire the doubters out of your life. — Ray Bradbury

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.. — Ray Bradbury

The things that you do should be things that you love, and things that you love should be things that you do. — Ray Bradbury

I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are automatically for children. — Ray Bradbury

By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. — Ray Bradbury

My men are my references. They're waiting outside for the books. They're dangerous."
"Men like that always are. — Ray Bradbury

To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start. — Ray Bradbury

First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down. — Ray Bradbury

In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize. — Ray Bradbury

went to the Rock to hide my face And the Rock cried out, "No Hiding Place, There's no Hiding Place down here. — Ray Bradbury

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done. — Ray Bradbury

They sat on the edge of a brook and took off their shoes and let the water cut their feet off to the ankles with an exquisite cold razor. — Ray Bradbury

I suppose it's an unconscious little stream of wit that flows quietly under everything I do or say. — Ray Bradbury

But that was another Mildred so deep inside this one, and so bothered, really bothered, that the two women had never met. — Ray Bradbury

Once upon a time! What kind of talk is that? — Ray Bradbury

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool. — Ray Bradbury

It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book ... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt ... — Ray Bradbury

It could reach up and grab the moon. — Ray Bradbury

A conglomerate heap of trash, that's what I am. But it burns with a high flame. — Ray Bradbury

So many people are. Afraid of firemen, I mean. But you're just a man, after all ... — Ray Bradbury

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. — Ray Bradbury

I don't know anything anymore — Ray Bradbury

We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth — Ray Bradbury

Give a man a few lines of verse and he thinks he's the Lord of all Creation. — Ray Bradbury

And besides, I like to cry. After I cry hard it's like it's morning again and I'm starting the day over. — Ray Bradbury

I don't write things to benefit the world. If it happens that they do, swell. I didn't set out to do that. I set out to have a hell of a lot of fun. — Ray Bradbury

They got Indian vision and can sight back further than you and me will ever sight ahead. — Ray Bradbury

The bombers crossed the sky and crossed the sky over the house, gasping, murmuring, whistling like an immense, invisible fan, circling in emptiness. — Ray Bradbury

Write what you love and love what you write. — Ray Bradbury

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. — Ray Bradbury

I never ask anyone else's opinion. They don't count. — Ray Bradbury

It's bad to get up early, stand at your typewriter and work, then find it's nothing and take a bottle to bed. — Ray Bradbury

Heaven is a house with porch lights. — Ray Bradbury

Sometimes I'm ancient. I'm afraid of children my own age. They kill each other. Did it always use to be that way? — Ray Bradbury

What did you give to the city, Montag?
Ashes.
What did the others give to each other?
Nothingness. — Ray Bradbury

..holding a book but reading the empty spaces. — Ray Bradbury

His flesh took paleness from his bones. — Ray Bradbury

Most men jump at the chance to give up everything for nothing. There's nothing we're so slapstick with as our own immortal souls. — Ray Bradbury

People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way. — Ray Bradbury

You must never name the goal. You must never tell us the target you're hitting for. You must automatically go toward it without ever naming it. — Ray Bradbury

The great thing about growing up with science fiction is that you have an interest in everything. — Ray Bradbury

Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer. — Ray Bradbury

Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine. — Ray Bradbury

The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere. — Ray Bradbury

You must remember, burn them or they'll burn you. — Ray Bradbury

It doesn't have to be the greatest. It does have to be you. — Ray Bradbury

Don't try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them. — Ray Bradbury

I think the sun is a flower,
That blooms for just one hour. — Ray Bradbury

At the top of your lungs, shout and listen to the echoes. You must live life at the top of your voice! — Ray Bradbury

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. — Ray Bradbury

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

Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library. — Ray Bradbury

Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic. — Ray Bradbury

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. — Ray Bradbury

Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. — Ray Bradbury

Going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for dinner. — 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

Life should be touched, not strangled. — Ray Bradbury

To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet. — Ray Bradbury

There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house. — Ray Bradbury

For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead ... We're nothing more than dust jackets for books ... so many pages to a person ... — Ray Bradbury

What should I do?" "Throw up in your typewriter every morning." "Yeah." "Clean up every noon. — Ray Bradbury

I wish I had known him, but he was just another shadow outside my screen door and I already had a sufficiency of shadows in. — Ray Bradbury

I care so much I'm sick. — Ray Bradbury