Quotes by
Ray Bradbury |
1920-2012 , American sci-fi writer
Best known for his short stories and novels that blend a poetic style, science fiction, nostalgia for childhood, social criticism, and an awareness of the hazards of runaway technology.He wrote many works and is famous for his novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and his short-story collections The Martian Chronicles (1950) and The Illustrated Man (1951).
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Quotations
| • | If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. 2 |
| • | Give a man a few lines of verse and he thinks he’s the Lord of all Creation. 2 |
| • | Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down. 2 |
| • | People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. 2 |
| • | You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. 1 |
| • | We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost. 1 |
| • | The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas. |
| • | We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. |
| • | You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing, but as a wrong address. |
| • | Good to evil seems evil. |
| • | The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little. |
| • | Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. |
| • | 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. |
