Ray Bradbury - Quodid

About

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Ray Douglas Bradbury (US: BRAD-berr-ee; August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction.

Quotes from Ray Bradbury

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 in Dandelion Wine

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You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

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We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

—Ray Bradbury

"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

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You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

—Ray Bradbury

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I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

—Ray Bradbury

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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

When he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again.

—Ray Bradbury in Fahrenheit 451

Books

Ray Bradbury has the following books quoted on Quodid:

Dandelion Wine
Fahrenheit 451