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1 " What does it matter who is Past or Future, if we are both alive, for what follows will follow, tomorrow or in ten thousand years. How do you know that those temples are not the temples of your own civilization one hundred centuries from now, tumbled and broken? You do not know. Then don't ask. "
― Ray Bradbury , The Vintage Bradbury: The Greatest Stories by America's Most Distinguished Practioner of Speculative Fiction
2 " But now, falling here, with everything over, I'm not jealous of you anymore, because it's over for you as it is for me, and right now it's like it never was. "
3 " Children are carpets, they should be stepped on occasionally. "
4 " That's how I think of children, cruel as they sometimes are, mean as I know they can be, but not yet showing the meanness around their eyes or in their eyes, not yet full of tiredness. They're so eager for everything! I guess that's what I miss most in older folks, the eagerness gone nine times out of ten, the freshness gone, so much of the drive and life down the drain. I like to watch school let out each day. It's like someone threw a bunch of flowers out the school front doors. "
5 " So I thought the best thing for me is a place so different that all you got to do is open your eyes and you're entertained. "
