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

—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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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?

—Ray Bradbury

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We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

—Ray Bradbury

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

—Ray Bradbury

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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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That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

—Ernest Hemingway

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I've spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping that when people get close enough they won't leave, and fearing that it's a matter of time before they figure me out and go.

—Shauna Niequist in Bittersweet

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Never make predictions, especially about the future.

—Casey Stengel

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Our noses too, and our eyes and ears, are political instruments, protesters. An aesthetic response is a political action.… We know instinctively, aesthetically, when a fish stinks, when the sense of beauty is offended. Standing for these moments—and these moments occur each day, within every airless office building, seated in each crippling chair, inundated by senseless noise and fattened on industrial food—standing for our responses, these aesthetic reverberations of truth in the soul, may be the primary civic act of the citizen, the origin of caution and of the precautionary principle itself, with its warnings to stop, look, and listen.

—James Hillman

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Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

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