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Ray Bradbury

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Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, 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


#dreams

I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.


— Ray Bradbury


#age

It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.


— Ray Bradbury


#fahrenheit- #technology

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


— Ray Bradbury


#burn #culture #destroy #get #just

So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless.


— Ray Bradbury


#life

I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.


— Ray Bradbury


#individuality #science-fiction #art

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.


— Ray Bradbury


#destroy #drunk #must #reality #stay

Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?" "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.


— Ray Bradbury


#relationships #friendship

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?


— Ray Bradbury


#need

There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.


— Ray Bradbury


#censorship #imagination






About Ray Bradbury

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Did you know about Ray Bradbury?

When Bradbury returned to Los Angeles he connected all the short stories and that became The Martian Chronicles. He loved Burroughs' The Warlord of Mars so much that at the age of 12 he wrote his own sequel. Electrico.

Many of Bradbury's works have been adapted into comic books television shows and films. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and for the science fiction and horror stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles (1950) and The Illustrated Man (1951) Bradbury was one of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers.

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