Ray Bradbury Quotes

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Ray Bradbury

Profession : Writer

Birth : August 22, 1920

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

Ray Bradbury

I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

Ray Bradbury

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.

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I'm not a serious person, and I don't like serious people.

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After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.

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We're all dreamers.

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If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

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Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that.

Ray Bradbury

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

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I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

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The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

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Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

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The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

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We've gotta reinvest in space travel. We should've never left the moon.

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My business is to prevent the future.

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I'm never going to go to Mars, but I've helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

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It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.

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I never ask anyone else's opinion. They don't count.

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I don't control my writing - it controls me.

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You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.

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