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I'm really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don't remember! (Ray Bradbury)
Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything. View quote
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These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes them want to live in other ways they can never really be. View quote
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Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe when it dies? View quote
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Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones. View quote
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He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty. There was more than enough here to fill him. There would always be more than enough. View quote
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Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable people want only the faces of the full moon, wax, faces without pores, hairless, expressionless. View quote
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Thinking little at all about nothing in particular. View quote
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Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two. View quote
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And suddenly everything, absolutely everything, was there. View quote
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The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little. (Ray Bradbury)
Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle. View quote
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Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes! View quote
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Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there's your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more. View quote
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I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down? View quote
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He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life. View quote
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There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel. View quote
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A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt. View quote
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But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority. View quote
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We must move into the universe. Mankind must save itself. We must escape the danger of war and politics. We must become astronauts and go out into the universe and discover the God in ourselves. View quote
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I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck. (Ray Bradbury)
In science fiction, we dream. In order to colonize in space, to rebuild our cities, which are so far out of whack, to tackle any number of problems, we must imagine the future, including the new technologies that are required. View quote
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Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers." View quote
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I wonder how many men, hiding their youngness, rise as I do, Saturday mornings, filled with the hope that Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam and Daffy Duck will be there waiting as our one true always and forever salvation? View quote
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Night had come on like the closing of a great but gentle eye. View quote
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