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

—Ray Bradbury

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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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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

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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"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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We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

—Ray Bradbury

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You would think after the rejection I've been dealt in my life that I'd be used to it. But it doesn't get easier. Not really. It makes you cautious. It makes you careful not to get your hopes up.

—Abbi Glines in The Vincent Brothers

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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

—Thomas H. Huxley

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Cruelty is easy, and it breeds only misery. Kindness is harder, and you have to be brave to give it. To be cruel, you can stay closed off from everyone, wear a mask, but to be kind, in essence, to show love, you have to make yourself vulnerable, show your true self to someone and open yourself up to rejection.

—L.H. Cosway in The Nature of Cruelty

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Rejection, though—it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.

—Deb Caletti in The Secret Life of Prince Charming

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As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.

—Steve Maraboli

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