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1 " Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it. "
― Ray Bradbury
2 " Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore. "
― Ray Bradbury , Fahrenheit 451
3 " Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. "
4 " Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else. "
― Ray Bradbury , Something Wicked This Way Comes (Green Town, #2)
5 " I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense. "
6 " Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me it means texture. This book has pores. It has features. This book can go under the microscope. You’d find life under the glass, streaming past in infinite profusion. The more pores, the more truthfully recorded details of life per square inch you can get on a sheet of paper, the more ‘literary’ you are. That’s my definition anyway. Telling detail. Fresh detail. The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies. So now you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. "
7 " Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for. "
8 " First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down. "
9 " It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. "
10 " Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down. "
11 " A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine. "
― Ray Bradbury , Dandelion Wine (Green Town, #1)
12 " Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change. Don’t give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy. "
13 " Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones. "
14 " The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour. "
15 " But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last. "
16 " We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth "
― Ray Bradbury , Zen in the Art of Writing
17 " There were only the great diamonds and sapphires and emerald mists and velvet inks of space, with God's voice mingling among the crystal fires. "
― Ray Bradbury , The Illustrated Man
18 " I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down? "
19 " The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen. "
20 " It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones. "
