Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury

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Ray Bradbury was an American author known for his imaginative works, particularly 'Fahrenheit 451', which critiques censorship and celebrates creativity.

Writing Book People Thinking Running Men
Born
August 22, 1920
Died
June 5, 2012
Quotes
762
Rank
#539

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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."

Country Attitude Real
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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."

Way Groups Helping
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"You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries."

Lying Book Light
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"We should have stayed on the moon. We should have made moon the base, instead of building space stations, which are fragile and which fly apart."

Moon Should Have Space
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"Men are nuts. Young men are crazy. We all love toys. I'm toy oriented. I write about toys. I've got a lot of toys. Hundreds of things. But computers are toys, and men like to mess around with smart dumb things. They feel creative."

Crazy Smart Writing
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"Edgar Allen Poe really started me when I was 8. I fell in love with everything of his."

Edgar Allen
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"He says I'm a regular onion! I keep him busy peeling away the layers."

Onions Layers Busy
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"They are so confident that they will run on forever. But they won't run on. They don't know that this is all one huge big blazing meteor that makes a pretty fire in space, but that some day it'll have to hit."

Running Space Fire
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"Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to. . . . When it hurts, when it means you rub chins with death, or even if it means dying, that's good. Anything that moves ahead, wins. No chess game was ever won by the player who sat for a lifetime thinking over his next move."

Hurt Moving Mean
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"I got a statistic for you right now. Grab your pencil, Doug. There are five billion trees in the world. I looked it up. Under every tree is a shadow, right? So, then, what makes night? I'll tell you: shadows crawling out from under five billion trees! Think of it! Shadows running around in the air, muddying the waters you might say. If only we could figure a way to keep those darn five billion shadows under those trees, we could stay up half the night, Doug, because there'd be no night!"

Running Night Thinking
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"I like to smell things and look at things, and sometimes stay up all night, walking, and watch the sun rise."

Night Smell Watches
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"I don't like to go to theaters, because I don't like the way most people behave in theaters."

People Way Theater
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"I can write faster on a typewriter than you can on a computer. I do 120 words a minute, and you can't do that on a computer."

Writing Typewriters Computer
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"I love the musical form of books. It's a different way of doing things, it's very beautiful. You're able to sing things instead of saying them. So what the heck - why not do them?"

Beautiful Book Musical
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"The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that nobody wanted, why I do short stories and novels and screenplays... is so I will have new ways of failing. This means becoming a student again."

Mean Years Gears
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"If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell."

Hell Go To Hell Ifs
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"The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us - it's all junk, all trash, tidbits of news. The average TV ad has 120 images a minute. Everything just falls off your mind. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."

Country Book Fall
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