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Life Quotes by Ray Bradbury

167 Life quotes by Ray Bradbury

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We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life, urging us to explore and feel everything around us. The quotes tell us to run after big moments, to love what we do, and to notice how people search for patterns in their days. They also remind us that waiting for someone who never returns can be part of life.

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See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream.

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Life should be touched, not strangled.

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“The nightmare of living was begun.”

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I've been writing every day of my life for 65 years.

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A life's work should be based on love.

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Stuff your eyes with wonder.

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Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.

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Good writers touch life often.

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“The Animal does not question lif. It lives. It's very reason for living is life; it enjoys and relishes life.”

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“And a lot of it will be wrong, but just enough of it will be right.”

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The great thing about my life is that everything I've done is a result of what I was when I was 12 or 13,

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I've been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

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“The good writers touch life. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her.”

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The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same…

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“Others have criticized, and they have criticized themselves, into embarrassment.”

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Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.

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The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of…

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Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. Youve got to relax, let…

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He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never…

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“I have three rules to live by: Get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut up and drink your gin, and…

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Like every beginner, I have thought you could beat, pummel and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any…

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“I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously." [ Writer’s Digest Interview…

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From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to…

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“The quality of death, like that of life, must be of an infinite variety, and if one has already died once, then…

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Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three…

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“First and foremost, [Writing] reminds us that we are alive and that it is gift and a privilege, not a right. We…

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You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff…

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I've never worked a day in my life. The joy of writing has propelled me from day to day and year to…

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From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to…

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“And just holding her hand would be good. Can you understand that? Do you know that holding someone's hand can be 'the'…

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The women in my life have all been librarians, English teachers, or booksellers. If they couldn't speak pidgin Tolstoy, articulate Henry James,…

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“Who said childhood was the best time of life? When in reality it was the most terrible, the most merciless era, the…

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“The worst thing you do when you think is lie — you can make up reasons that are not true for the…

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“Tom," she said, faintly, far away, "in the Southern Seas there's a day in each man's life when he knows it's time…

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“Last night I thought about all that kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for…

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“I never went to college. I don’t believe in college for writers. I think too many professors are too opinionated and too…

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“My feet," said Montag. "I can't move them. I feel so damn silly. My feet won't move!" "Listen. Easy now," said the…

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“[I love my work] intensely — I wouldn’t be in it if I ever stopped loving it, I would shift it and…

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“What could he say that might make sense to them? Could he say love was, above all, common cause, shared experience? That…

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I am a dedicated madman, and that becomes its own training. If you can't resist, if the typewriter is like candy to…

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Remember, with writing, what you’re looking for is just one person to come up and tell you, 'I love you for what you do.'

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“You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you…

We're going to become the martians when we land there. When we explore and build communities, we become the martians. That's a wonderful destiny…

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The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves…

If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.

But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority