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Back Quotes by Ray Bradbury
- The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes. And it seems like nothing -…
- We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give back…
- All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At…
- Important thing is not the me that's lying here, but the me that's sitting on the edge of the bed looking back at me, and…
- Like every beginner, I have thought you could beat, pummel and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds…
- The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive.
- In my later years I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can…
- The psychiatrist wants to know why I go out and hike around in the forests and watch the birds and collect butterflies. I'll show you…
- The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes.
- I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt…
- Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.
- Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.
- Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic.
- I was never young. Whoever I was then is dead. That's more of your quills. I don't want a hide full, thanks. I have always…
- In sum, do not insult me with the beheadings, finger choppings or the lung-deflations you plan for my works. I need my head to shake…
- From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living.…
- And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is gift and a…
- He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflected your own…
- The Martians were there—in the canal—reflected in the water.... The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling…
- The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back…
- No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to…
- MOTHER: Why, just lying there, Jim, you run so fast. I never saw anyone move so much, just sleeping. Promise me, Jim. Wherever you go…
- Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going a long time back. I said nothing. I am one…
- You'll be found, your nickels, dimes and Indian-heads fused by electroplating. Abe Lincolns melted into Miss Columbias, eagles plucked raw on the backs of quarters,…
- Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can nowadays, is happier than any man…
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