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"50 Ray Bradbury Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 22 August 1920. Died: 5 June 2012 | Author | Screenwriter |

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

Difficult Enjoy Keep Living
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We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

Beautiful Being Constantly Cups
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Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

Appeared Automobile Could Destroy
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We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

Get Got Machines Many
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Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

Fall Get Key Live
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We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

Men World
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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.

Any Dead Dream Drop
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
Cannot Destroy Drunk Must
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Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Child Scientist Touch You
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If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

Dream Dreams Grow GrowUp
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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Building Cliff Down Jumping
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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.

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

Anything AnythingIsPossible Begins Best
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My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

Bite Down Everything Finish
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You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Books Burn Culture Destroy
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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Books Burning Crimes Reading
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I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
Describe Future Prevent Try
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We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

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

Doing Like Then You
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I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Before Good Hard HardWork
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You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

Must Simply Them Things
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You fail only if you stop writing.

Fail Only Stop Writing
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Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
Future Libraries NoFuture Past
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Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Fall Find How Jump
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Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Anything Creativity Enemy Lousy
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Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.

American Been Busy Credit
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Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.

Easy Get ILove Idea
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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.

Answer Anything Everything Love
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Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

Adrenaline Borrowing Energy Excite
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I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.
Anyone How Me No-One
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I don't believe in colleges and universities.

Believe Colleges Universities
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When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

Depression Graduated Had High
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I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

Being Born Coming Great
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I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.

Computer Typewriter
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Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

Being Could Go Human
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Most of my short stories are fantasy.

Fantasy Most Short ShortStories
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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.

Field Learn Own Read
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When you're older you want to learn from other people.
Learn Older Other People
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My business is to prevent the future.

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

Control Does Muse Work
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My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.

Almost AlmostAll Book Dead
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I have fun with ideas; I play with them.

Fun HaveFun Ideas Play
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I'm not a serious person, and I don't like serious people.
Like People Person Serious
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I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.

Boring Myself Philosopher See
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My goal is to entertain myself and others.

Entertain Goal Myself Others
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There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

ByThePeople ForThePeople Got Government
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The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.

About First Landing Mars
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The important thing is to be in love with something.

Important ImportantThing Love Something
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All of my writing is God-given.
God-Given Writing
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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

Disastrous Forget God Lesson
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Ray Bradbury Quotes & Sayings