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

—Ray Bradbury

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We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

—Ray Bradbury

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Ah, sweet alcohol. Like a true friend, you replace the anger with better, louder anger.

—Randy K. Milholland

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Anger is like that. Runs on its own fumes, devours itself voraciously, explosively, until one day there is no fire left. Only pure, cold, unbreakable hardness.

—Leah Raeder in Black Iris

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I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.

—Groucho Marx

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

—Marcus Aurelius

Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

—Norman Vincent Peale

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