Bird Quote by Ray Bradbury

“The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.”

Ray Bradbury

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

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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…

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

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

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

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

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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 do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A…

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

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

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

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Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal of his candles on a rejoicing night, let her look to him and keep him out of harm's way; or the world will be apt to say, she has a mind to be a widow before…

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Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief, nor sickened because of her pain. She might have seen that what had bowed her head so profoundly -the thought of the world's concern at her situation- was found…

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When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from his apartment, Steven watched the protests and the preparations with interest. The bird people were furious, the developers unmovable, and Steven was filled with relief that the fight wasn't his. Nothing here was his... He thought there should…

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The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself, and die singing. At the very instant the thorn enters there is no awareness in it of the dying to come; it simply sings and sings until there is not the life left to utter another…

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