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Really knowing is good. Not k...

Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.

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So it was the hand that start...

So it was the hand that started it all . . . His hands had been infected, and soon it would be his arms . . . His hands were ravenous.

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They are so confident that th...

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.

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Comic strips introduced me to...

Comic strips introduced me to metaphors. They are pure metaphor, so you learn how to tell a story with symbols, which is a very valuable thing to learn. And I learned that from motion pictures, too, and from poetry. Poetry is mainly metaphor. If it doesn't have a metaphor, it doesn't work.

Ray Bradbury 813 quotes

He says I'm a regular onion! ...

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

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The river was mild and leisur...

The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper.

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Why then you're as mad as me....

Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings.

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The zipper displaces the butt...

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

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Night had come on like the cl...

Night had come on like the closing of a great but gentle eye.

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Every time you take a step, e...

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.

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The Martians were there - in ...

The Martians were there - in the canal - reflected in the water.... The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water.

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I got a statistic for you rig...

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!

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Shut the door, they're coming...

Shut the door, they're coming through the window, shut the window, they're coming through the door," are the words to an old song. They fit my lifestyle with newly arriving butcher/censors every month. Only six weeks ago, I discovered that, over the years, some cubby-hole editors at Ballantine Books, fearful of contaminating the young, had, bit by bit, censored some 75 separate sections from the novel. Students, reading the novel which, after all, deals with censorship and book-burning in the future, write to tell me of this exquisite irony.

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MOTHER: Why, just lying there...

MOTHER: Why, just lying there, Jim, you run so fast. I never saw anyone move so much, just sleeping. Promise me, Jim. Wherever you go and come back, bring lots of kids. Let them run wild. Let me spoil them, some day. JIM: I'm never going to own anything that can hurt me.

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And besides, I like to cry. A...

And besides, I like to cry. After I cry hard it's like it's morning again and I'm starting the day over.

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..holding a book but reading ...

..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

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Through neglect, ignorance, o...

Through neglect, ignorance, or inability, the new intellectual Borgias cram hairballs down our throats and refuse us the convulsion that could make us well. They have forgotten, if they ever knew, the ancient knowledge that only by being truly sick can one regain health. Even beasts know when it is good and proper to throw up. Teach me how to be sick then, in the right time and place, so that I may again walk in the fields and with the wise and smiling dogs know enough to chew sweet grass.

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Each person was himself one a...

Each person was himself one alone. One oneness, a unit in a society, but always afraid, always alone. If I should scream, if I should call for help, would anyone hear would it even matter?

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Edgar Allen Poe really starte...

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

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The moon is a good, solid bas...

The moon is a good, solid base to build a space travel organization in the community.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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