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Never question the miraculous when it happens. (Ray Bradbury)
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. View quote
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We have too many cellphones. We've got too many Internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now. View quote
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You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on. View quote
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Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for. View quote
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He knew that most machines are amoral, neither bad nor good. But by the way you built and shaped them you in turn shaped men, women, and children to be bad or good. A car, for instance, dead brute, unthinking, an unprogrammed bulk, is the greatest destroyer of souls in history. It makes boy-men greedy for power, destruction, and more destruction. It was never intended to do that. But that's how it turned out. View quote
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With schools turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word "intellectual," of course, became the swear word it deserved to be. View quote
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I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane. View quote
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I believe the universe created us - we are an audience for miracles. View quote
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I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things. View quote
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That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and WORTH the doing. (Ray Bradbury)
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. View quote
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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. View quote
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Can't you recognize the human in the inhuman? View quote
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I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite. View quote
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It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all. View quote
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The father hesitated only a moment. He felt the vague pain in his chest. If I run, he thought, what will happen? Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts. And we've done fine tonight. Even Death can't spoil it. View quote
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He says I'm a regular onion! I keep him busy peeling away the layers. View quote
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A single face turned upward toward all Time One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace. View quote
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THE OCTOBER COUNTRY ...that country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain... View quote
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When I started writing seriously, I made the major discovery of my life - that I am right and everybody else is wrong if they disagree with me. What a great thing to learn: Don't listen to anyone else, and always go your own way. (Ray Bradbury)
A life's work should be based on love. View quote
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Why would you clone people when you can go to bed with them and make a baby? C'mon, it's stupid. View quote
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Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft. View quote
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If I was ever a rare fine summer person, that's long ago. Most of us are half-and-half. The August noon in us works to stave off the November chills. We survive by what little Fourth of July wits we've stashed away. But there are times when we're all autumn people. View quote
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