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

About Ray Bradbury

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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.

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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

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

—Ray Bradbury

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

—Ray Bradbury

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"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?

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We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

—Ray Bradbury

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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

—P. G. Wodehouse

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Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.

—Bertrand Russell

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Arnold Bennett visited Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw in his apartment and, knowing his host's love of flowers, was surprised that there was not a single vase of flowers to be seen. He remarked on their absence to Shaw: "But I thought you were so fond of flowers."
"I am," said Shaw, "and I'm very fond of children, too, but I don't chop their heads off and stand them in pots about the house.

—The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

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