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"And some days, he went on, were days of hearing every trump and trill of the universe. Some days were good for tasting and some for touching. And some days were good for all the senses at once. This day now, he nodded, smelled as if a great and nameless orchard had grown up overnight beyond the hills to fill the entire visible land with its warm freshness. The air felt like rain, but there were no clouds."
--- Ray Bradbury
#Touching #Rain #Orchard
"If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it."
--- Ray Bradbury
#Forget It #Forget #Wells
"Sunsets are loved because they vanish. Flowers are loved because they go. The dogs of the field and the cats of the kitchen are loved because soon they must depart. These are not the sole reasons, but at the heart of morning welcomes and afternoon laughters is the promise of farewell. In the gray muzzle of an old dog we see goodbye. In the tired face of an old friend we read long journeys beyond returns."
--- Ray Bradbury
#Promise #Reason #Fields
"It was a pleasure to burn."
--- Ray Bradbury
#Chaos #Pleasure
"Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper."
--- Ray Bradbury
#Prisms #World #Writing
"Friendship is an island that you retreat to and you all fall on the floor and laugh at all the other ninnies that don't have enough brains to have your good taste."
--- Ray Bradbury
#Good Taste #Retreat #Fall
"People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better."
--- Ray Bradbury
#Predicting The Future #Breathe #People
"Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again."
--- Ray Bradbury
#Treasure #Happens #This Day
"Get rid of those friends of yours who make fun of you and don't believe in you. And when you leave here tonight, go home, make a phone call and fire them. Anyone that doesn't believe in you and your future, to hell with them."
--- Ray Bradbury
#Phones #Phone Calls #Fire
"The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool."
--- Ray Bradbury
#Lasts #Fool #Firsts
"Where would you like to go, what would you really like to do with your life? See Istanbul, Port Said, Nairobi, Budapest. Write a book. Smoke too many cigarettes. Fall off a cliff but get caught in a tree halfway down. Get shot at a few times in a dark alley on a Morrocan midnight. Love a beautiful woman."
--- Ray Bradbury
#Book #Smoke #Said
"But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again."
--- Ray Bradbury
#Soul #Found #Lost
"I am a dedicated madman, and that becomes its own training. If you can't resist, if the typewriter is like candy to you, you train yourself for a lifetime. Every single day of your life, some wild new thing to be done. You write to please yourself. You write for the joy of writing. Then your public reads you and it begins to gather around your selling a potato peeler in an alley, you know. The enthusiasm, the joy itself draws me. So that means every day of my life I've written. When the joy stops, I'll stop writing."
--- Ray Bradbury
#Mean #New Things #Candy
"Remember, with writing, what you’re looking for is just one person to come up and tell you, 'I love you for what you do.'"
--- Ray Bradbury
#Just One #Love You #Writing
"But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes"
--- Ray Bradbury
#Wicked #Lifetime #Way
"This is the result of six billion years of evolution. Tonight, we have given the lie to gravity.We have reached for the stars."
--- Ray Bradbury
#Six #Billions #Gravity
"Action is hope. At the end of each day, when you've done your work, you lie there and think, Well, I'll be damned, I did this today. It doesn't matter how good it is, or how bad-you did it. At the end of the week you'll have a certain amount of accumulation. At the end of a year, you look back and say, I'll be damned, it's been a good year."
--- Ray Bradbury
#Thinking #Each Day #Action
"I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour."
--- Ray Bradbury
#Thinking #Just One #Flower
"It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones."
--- Ray Bradbury
#Writing #Billions #Bad Word
"But no man's a hero to himself."
--- Ray Bradbury
#Hero #Men
"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 Bradbury
#People #Reason #Sadness
"I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it."
--- Ray Bradbury
#Predicting The Future #Predicting #Trying
"I’ve often been accused of being too emotional and sentimental, but I believe in honest sentiment, and the need to purge ourselves at certain times, which is ancient. Men would live at least five or six more years and not have ulcers if they could cry better."
--- Ray Bradbury
#Emotional #Six #Honest
"We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again—to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more."
--- Ray Bradbury
#Travel And Culture #Travel The World #Eye
"Digression is the soul of wit."
--- Ray Bradbury
#Wit #Soul
"Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage."
--- Ray Bradbury
#Relative #Craziness #Bipolar
"The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking."
--- Ray Bradbury
#Thinking #Seconds #Clip
"And the lesson was this; sit in the sun, head down, within a prickly vine, in a flickery light, or open light, and the world will come to you. The sky will come in its time, bringing rain, and the earth will rise through you, from beneath, and make you rich and make you full."
--- Ray Bradbury
#Rain #World #Lessons
"That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and WORTH the doing."
--- Ray Bradbury
#Giving Up #Wells #Discouraged
"When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die."
--- Ray Bradbury
#Fear #Forever #Dies

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