Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I’m one of them.
RAY BRADBURYMemory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
More Ray Bradbury Quotes
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You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
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If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.
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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.
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If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.
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We are the witnesses to the miracle. We are put here by creation, by God….We’re here to be the audience to the magnificent. It is our job to celebrate.
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Write a thousand words a day and in three years you’ll be a writer!
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If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we’ll become completely dark.
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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.
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You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.
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If you love people you criticize them, and if you don’t love them you don’t criticize them, you let them go to hell, don’t you? To help any kind of friendship, your marriage, your children, you criticize because you love.
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There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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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.
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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
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