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• Hello!" He said hello and then said, "What are you up to now?" "I'm still crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it. "I don't think I'd like that," he said. "You might if you tried." "I never have." She licked her lips. "Rain even tastes good." "What do you do, go around trying everything once?" he asked. "Sometimes twice.

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  Crazy, Rain, Thinking

  Ray Bradbury (2015). “Ray Bradbury 3-Book Collection: Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man”, p.30, HarperCollins UK

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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.

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  Helping, Martian Chronicles

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• You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.

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  College, Everyday, Library

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• How many times can a man go down and still be alive?

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  Men, Alive, Down And

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.63, Hamilton Books

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• You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.

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  Fields, Young

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• Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry.

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  Confused, Cry, Let Me

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• The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen, and the sun burnt Time, that meant everything burnt!

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  Axes, Years, Circles

  "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury, (p. 141), 1953.

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• Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.

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  Juvenile, Delinquents

  Ray Bradbury (1951). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, Simon and Schuster

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• Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle.

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  Country, Eye, Knives

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• He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflected your own light to you? People were more often--he searched for a simile, found one in his work--torches, blazing away until they whiffed out. How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought?

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  Wall, Mirrors, Light

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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.

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  Space, Forever, Want

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.153, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset, I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try.

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  Running, Sunset, Games

  Ray Bradbury (1990). “Fahrenheit 451: Curriculum Unit”

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• We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing... It is not books you need, it's some of the things that are in books. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

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  Book, Missing, Magic

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• Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this so the sadness could not hurt

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  Running, Hurt, Sadness

  Ray Bradbury (2013). “Something Wicked This Way Comes”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand.

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  Eye, Hands, Noses

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• When you're older you want to learn from other people.

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  People, Want

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• I was one of Them: the Strange Ones. The Funny People. The Odd Tribes of autograph collectors and photographers. The Ones who waited through long days and nights, who used other people's dreams for their lives.

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  Dream, Night, Long

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• Evil has only the power we give it.

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  Evil, Giving

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• With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century.

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  Book, Hands, Firsts

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• Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.

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  Love, Writing, People

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• In our time the search for extraterrestrial life will eventually change our laws, our religions, our philosophies, our arts, our recreations, as well as our sciences. Space, the mirror, waits for life to come look for itself there.

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  Art, Philosophy, Mirrors

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• People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it.

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  People, Want, Ask Me

  "Beyond 1984: The People Machines". Book by Ray Bradbury, 1979.

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• Your mind's always juggling, isn't it?-mirrors, torches, plates.

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  Mirrors, Mind, Torches

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Illustrated Man”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• Love what you do and do what you love.

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  What You Love

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• I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.

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  Jobs, Thinking

  "Ray Bradbury: 'It's Lack That Gives Us Inspiration'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, kalw.org. June 8, 2012.

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