Ray Bradbury quotes - page 15

We must earn life once it has been awarded us. Life asks for rewards back because it has favored us with animation. 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)
Three things are in your head: First, everything you have experienced from the day of your birth until right now. View quote
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We clothe ourselves in flame And trade new myths for old. View quote
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The slave and master in one skin Is all your history, no more, no less. View quote
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I am the dreamer and the doer I the hearer and the knower I the giver and the taker I the sword and the wound of sword. View quote
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YOUR INFLUENCE ON US ALL, FROM 1939 ON, CANNOT BE MEASURED. View quote
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When, trussed and bound and nailed, You sacrifice your life, your liberty You hang yourself upon the tenterhook. Pull free! View quote
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I would replace cars wherever possible with buses, monorails, rapid trains - whatever is takes to make pedestrians the center of our society again, and cities worthwhile enough for pedestrians to live in. View quote
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I've found that I'm a lot like Verne - a writer of moral fables, an instructor in the humanities. He believes the human being is in a strange situation in a very strange world, and he believes that we can triumph by behaving morally. View quote
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A dreadful laugh at last escapes his lips; The laughter sets him free. A Fool lives in the Universe! he cries. The Fool is me! View quote
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On the way I drank in the words of A.E. Van Vogt and was stunned by what I saw there. He became a deep influence for the next year. As it turned out, I didn't become A.E. Van Vogt, no one else could, and when I finally met him was pleased to see that the man was as pleasant to be with as were his stories. (Ray Bradbury)
I stopped my inner time clock at the age of 14. Another reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination. View quote
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I sit there and cry because I feel that I'm not responsible for any of this. It's from God. And I'm so grateful, so, so grateful. View quote
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We must not let them go into the fourth and fifth grades not knowing how to read. View quote
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I'm still trying to perform those tricks. Now I do it with writing. View quote
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I went home and within days I started to write. I've never stopped. View quote
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You can criticize communists, racists, fascists or any other clear and present danger, and they can't imagine you are writing about them. View quote
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The need for romance is constant, and again, it's pooh-poohed by intellectuals. View quote
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As Man steps down in amiable wisdom To give himself what no one else can give: His liberty. View quote
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We should be back on the moon right now. View quote
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Wearing their wits, which means their laughter, As their crown. Set free upon the earth By simple gifts of knowing how mere mirth can cut the bonds And pull the blood spikes out. (Ray Bradbury)
I foresaw political correctness 43 years ago. View quote
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As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible. View quote
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To hell with more. I want better. View quote
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You can't write for other people. You can't write for the left or the right, this religion or that religion, or this belief or that belief. You have to write the way you see things. View quote
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