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Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff. (Ray Bradbury)
The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour. View quote
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Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry. View quote
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And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (...) View quote
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We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe. View quote
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We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. View quote
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A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time,” she said. "I was born out of New York. The things that are most wrong here summoned me. ("Drink Entire: Against The Madness Of Crowds") View quote
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From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living. View quote
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I have three rules to live by: Get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut up and drink your gin, and when all else fails, run like hell. View quote
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Kerosene," he said, because the silence had lengthened, "is nothing but perfume to me. View quote
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I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot. (Ray Bradbury)
Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or small forms, on unlimited or restricted canvases. These are the children of the gods. View quote
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The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him. View quote
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Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch. View quote
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I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour. View quote
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It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow. View quote
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So in sum, what are we? We are the creatures that know and know too much. That leaves us with such a burden again we have a choice, to laugh or cry. No other animal does either. We do, depending on the season and the need. View quote
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Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you? View quote
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When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How could they!--when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!? View quote
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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. View quote
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Miraculously, smoke curled out of his own mouth, his nose, his ears, his eyes, as if his soul had been extinguished within his lungs at the very moment the sweet pumpkin gave up its incensed ghost. (Ray Bradbury)
Good to evil seems evil. View quote
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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones. View quote
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Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill. View quote
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Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer! View quote
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