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That so much time was wasted in this pain. (Ray Bradbury)
All flesh is one: what matter scores. View quote
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I had decided to be a magician well before I decided to be a writer. View quote
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I was madly in love with Hollywood. View quote
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For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan or dolphin, nuclear-head or water-conversationalist, pro-computerologist or Neo-Luddite, simpleton or sage, to interfere with aesthetics. The real world is the playing ground for each and every group, to make or unmake laws. View quote
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He dooms himself. He is his own sad jest. View quote
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I never have to worry about schedules. Some new thing is always exploding in me, and it schedules me, I don't schedule it. View quote
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I use a scientific idea as a platform to leap into the air and never come back. This keeps them angry at me. View quote
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Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme. View quote
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Whether you're a majority or minority, bug off! To hell with anybody who wants to tell me what to write. Their society breaks down into subsections of minorities who then, in effect, burn books by banning them. View quote
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Love means saying you're sorry every day for some little thing or other. (Ray Bradbury)
I'm glad you're back in my life. View quote
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That one story taught me how to read and write because I looked at the picture of that beautiful beast, but I so desperately wanted to read about him too. View quote
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Oh come, please come, to the Poor Mouth Fair Where the Saints kneel round in their underwear And say out prayers that most need saying For needful sinners who've forgotten praying. View quote
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When he came to me, he touched me on the brow, and on the nose, and on the chin, and he said to me, in a whisper, "Live forever.” And I decided to. View quote
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The great religions are all metaphor. View quote
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The way to teach in this world is to pretend you're not teaching. View quote
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Science fiction pretends to look into the future but it's really looking at a reflection of what is already in front of us. View quote
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That's the whole secret: to do things that excite you. View quote
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We need something larger than ourselves - that's a real religious activity. That's what space travel can be - relating ourselves to the universe. View quote
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A.E. Van Vogt was not strange, he was kind. (Ray Bradbury)
When they give you lined paper, write the other way. View quote
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Are you happy? View quote
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Let you alone! That's all very well, but how can I leave myself alone? We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real? View quote
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No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now. View quote
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