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World Quotes by Ray Bradbury

64 World quotes by Ray Bradbury

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Ray Bradbury imagines a lifelong wrestling match with the Creative Muse and a library that feeds endless curiosity like a cracker box. He talks about letting the world burn through you, about burning books in many ways, and about gardening as a quiet excuse for philosophy. He also paints a summer‑peach face that captures fleeting beauty.

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

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We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

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There is only one type of story in the world-your story.

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All isn't well with the world.

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No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must…

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You've been put on the world to love the act of being alive.

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May you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

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I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.

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There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

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Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much?

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I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect…

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In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.

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They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to…

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All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn't matter if you…

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Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual…

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The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass…

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A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of…

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The trouble with Jim was he looked at the world and could not look away. And when you never look away all…

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But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world…

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I love you and I forgive you. I am like you and you are like me. I love all people. I love…

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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…

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Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of…

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Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that…

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Forgive, I hope you won't be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind…

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You learn to live with your crazy enthusiasms which nobody else shares, and then you find a few other nuts like yourself,…

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“This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite…

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And the lesson was this; sit in the sun, head down, within a prickly vine, in a flickery light, or open light,…

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We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool…

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

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But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to…

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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 got a statistic for you right now. Grab your pencil, Doug. There are five billion trees in the world. I looked…

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I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the…

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“Every hour so many damn things in the sky! How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of…

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There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.…

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Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, 'Hold on a moment.' You play God to it. But who has ever…

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Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here.

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“See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”

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Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.

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Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.

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That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then you walk…

Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.

There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.

We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give…

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.'

As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,…

“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…

I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon…

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