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Suddenly the day was gone, night came out from under each tree and spread. (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... View quote
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Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?" "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you. View quote
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Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered... sealed away for opening on a January day with snow falling fast and the sun unseen for weeks... View quote
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Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course. View quote
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And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again... View quote
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Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That's our official slogan. View quote
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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. View quote
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What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read? View quote
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I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning. View quote
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Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff. (Ray Bradbury)
Killing one butterfly couldn't be that important! Could it? View quote
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It's the work that identifies you. View quote
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Listen, you can't turn really bright people into robots. You can turn dumb people into robots, but that's true in every society and system. View quote
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The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. View quote
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We need space for reasons we have not as yet discovered, and I don't mean Tupperware. View quote
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See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security. View quote
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Sunsets we always liked because they only happen once and go away." "But, Lena, that's sad." "No, if the sunset stayed and we got bored, that would be a real sadness. View quote
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I'd like to know what a place iswhen I'm. I'd like to be. View quote
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-I hate a Roman named Status Quo! Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away. To hell with that, shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass. View quote
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If you are going to describe the history of animation, you'd look at the early Disney work, then 'Bugs Bunny,' 'Road Runner' and other Warner Brothers theatrical productions. But when you got to 'Rocky and Bullwinkle,' you'd see they were unique: They assumed you had a brain in your head. (Ray Bradbury)
After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained. View quote
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Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it. View quote
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Science Fiction is the fiction of ideas. View quote
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It's like my friend Mr. Electrico. ... he was a real man. That was his real name. View quote
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