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Montag, you're looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going, a long time back. I said nothing. I'm one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the "guilty," but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself. (Ray Bradbury)
I write fantasy. The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened. View quote
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I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn't forget, I'm alive, I know I'm alive, I mustn't forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that. View quote
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You're peculiar, you're aggravating, yet you're easy to forgive. You say you're seventeen?..How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet you seem so much older at times. I can't get over it. View quote
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The Martians were there-in the canal-reflected in the water.... The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water.... View quote
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My gosh, if you're going away, we got a million things to talk about! All the things we would've talked about next month, the month after! Praying mantises, zeppelins, acrobats, sword swallowers! View quote
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Sandwich outdoors isn't a sandwich anymore. Tastes different than indoors, notice? Got more spice. Tastes like mint and pinesap. Does wonders for the appetite. View quote
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Half the fun of travel is the esthetic of lostness. View quote
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You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were. View quote
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Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever. View quote
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I believe in Darwin and God together. It's all one. It's all mysterious. Look at the universe. It's been here forever. It's totally impossible. (Ray Bradbury)
My favorite writers have been those who've said things well. View quote
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Man warring on himself an old tale is; But Man discovering the source of all his sorrow in himself, Finding his left hand and his right Are similar sons, are children fighting In the porchyards of the void?! View quote
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There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library. View quote
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Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life. View quote
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His library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore. View quote
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God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other. View quote
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But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again. View quote
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Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it. View quote
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Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row. View quote
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For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead... We're nothing more than dust jackets for books... so many pages to a person... (Ray Bradbury)
But no man's a hero to himself. View quote
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The television is 'real'. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn't time to protest, 'What nonsense!'. View quote
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And besides, I like to cry. After I cry hard it's like it's morning again and I'm starting the day over. View quote
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I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they're going. View quote
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