Ray Bradbury Quotes - Page 21

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• It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes.

  Ray Bradbury

  Lying, Writing, Intellectual

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• I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living too much in the past - a combination of both.

  Ray Bradbury

  Past, Two, Half

  "Ray Bradbury, The Art of Fiction No. 203". Interview with Sam Geller, www.theparisreview.org. 2010.

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• Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.

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  People, Made, Young

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.

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  Book, Years, Needs

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.41, Hamilton Books

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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...

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  Running, Spring, Autumn

  Ray Bradbury (2002). “I Live by the Invisible: New & Selected Poems”, p.25, Salmon Publishing

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• You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You've got to learn how to write!

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  Writing, Waiting, Stories

  Source: www.jasonmarchi.com

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• People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way.

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  Writing, People, Mind

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.124, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• We've got to reinvest in space travel. We should have never left the moon.

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  Moon, Should Have, Space

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• And there, row upon row, with the soft gleam of flowers opened at morning, with the light of this June sun glowing through a faint skin of dust, would stand the dandelion wine. Peer through it at the wintry day - the snow melted to grass, the trees were reinhabitated with bird, leaf, and blossoms like a continent of butterflies breathing on the wind. And peering through, color sky from iron to blue. Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in

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  Summer, Morning, Children

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Dandelion Wine”, p.18, HarperCollins UK

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• It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.

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  Running, Forever, Shadow

  Ray Bradbury (2013). “Something Wicked This Way Comes”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change. Don’t give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.

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  Philosophy, Lying, Moving

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.30, Hamilton Books

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• Now let's take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes of the dog-lovers, the cat-lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second-generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon or Mexico. The people in this book, this play, this TV serial are not meant to represent any actual painters, cartographers, mechanics anywhere. The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy, remember that!

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  Dog, Book, Cat

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• What should I do?" "Throw up in your typewriter every morning." "Yeah." "Clean up every noon.

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  Morning, Typewriters, Noon

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• The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events.

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  Events, Certain, Middle

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• I'm scared of myself. I think I'd be a bad driver. I'm scared of cars, period. I've had too many friends killed now, and I've seen too many people killed in my life when I drove across the country when I was 12. I'm sure that has a lot to do with it. If you see a few real dead bodies with brains on the pavement, it does a lot to change your attitude. It means you can get it too. I've had a lot of relatives killed. I've had a lot of dear friends killed. It's stupid. The whole activity is stupid.

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  Country, Attitude, Real

  "Ray Bradbury's Lost Interview On Madmen, Writing, and Cars" by Chris Higgins, mentalfloss.com. April 28, 2015.

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• I had decided to be a magician well before I decided to be a writer. I was the little boy who would get up on-stage and do magic wearing a fake mustache, which would fall off during the performance. I'm still trying to perform those tricks. Now I do it with writing.

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  Fall, Writing, Boys

  Source: www.raybradbury.com

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• We can't live alone in any society. But the best way to help a society or group, is to be the best individual in it that we can be.

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  Way, Groups, Helping

  Source: www.tangentonline.com

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• You learn to live with your crazy enthusiasms which nobody else shares, and then you find a few other nuts like yourself, and they're your friends for a lifetime. That's what friends are, the people who share your crazy outlook and protect you from the world, because nobody else is going to give a damn what you're doing, so you need a few other people like yourself.

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  Crazy, Nuts, People

  "Ray Bradbury's Lost Interview On Madmen, Writing, and Cars" by Chris Higgins, mentalfloss.com. April 28, 2015.

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• I don't like the kind of writer who's out to change the world and beat up on people for their own good. Stalin did that and Hitler did that, and to hell with them.

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  People, World, Kind

  Source: www.tangentonline.com

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• The whole concept of higher education is negated unless the sole criterion used to determine if students qualify is the grades they score on standardized tests. Education is purely an issue of learning - we can no longer afford to have it polluted by damn politics. Leave pollution up to the politicians

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  Issues, Tests, Students

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.160, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The great thing about my life is that everything I've done is a result of what I was when I was 12 or 13.

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  Done, Life Is, Results

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• Science fiction is a great way to pretend you are writing about the future when in reality you are attacking the recent past and the present. You can criticize communists, racists, fascists or any other clear and present danger, and they can't imagine you are writing about them.

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  Writing, Reality, Past

  Source: www.raybradbury.com

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• The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.

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  Twelve, Hours, Shots

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• Friendship is an island that you retreat to and you all fall on the floor and laugh at all the other ninnies that don't have enough brains to have your good taste.

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  Fall, Islands, Laughing

  "Ray Bradbury's Lost Interview On Madmen, Writing, and Cars" by Chris Higgins, mentalfloss.com. April 28, 2015.

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• I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are automatically for children.

  Ray Bradbury

  Children, Book, Kids

  Source: www.raybradbury.com

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