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Disbelief is catching. It rubs off on people. (Ray Bradbury)
Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young. View quote
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Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here. View quote
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The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly. View quote
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I've alway known that the quality of love was the mind, even though the body sometimes refuses this knowledge. The body lives for itself. It lives only to feed and wait for the night. It's essentially nocturnal. But what of the mind which is born of the sun, William, and must spend thousands of hours of a lifetime awake and aware? Can you balance off the body, that pitiful, selfish thing of night against a whole lifetime of sun and intellect? I don't know. View quote
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Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off. View quote
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The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes. View quote
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All silence is. All emptiness. And now: The dawn. View quote
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The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive. View quote
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Mysteries abound where most we seek for answers. View quote
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My job is to help you fall in love. (Ray Bradbury)
The stars are yours, if you have the head, the hands, and the heart for them. View quote
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We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big beautiful things. The only reason we didn't set up hot-dog stands in the midst of the Egyptian temple of Karnak is because it was out of the way and served no large commercial purpose. View quote
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Joy is the grace we say to God. View quote
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Those who live in the best cliffs think they are better than us. That is always man's attitude when he has power. View quote
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Libraries raised me. I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years. View quote
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All flesh is one: what matter scores; Or color of the suit Or if the helmet glints with blue or gold? All is one bold achievement, All is fine spring-found-again-in-autumn day When juices run in antelopes along our blood, And green our flag, forever green... View quote
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We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts. View quote
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We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give back to the universe.... If we make landfall on another star system, we become immortal. View quote
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Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers. View quote
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It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God. (Ray Bradbury)
You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do - and they don't. They have prejudices. View quote
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It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. View quote
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I'm not anyone, I'm just myself; whatever I am, I am something, and now I'm something you can't help. View quote
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I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion, now. View quote
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