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Ray Bradbury Quotes

1920–2012 United States

Ray Douglas Bradbury (22 August 1920 – 5 June 2012) was an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer.

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Also known as: Bradbury, Ray

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The rocket stood in the cold winter morning, making summer with every breath of its mighty exhausts. The rocket made climates, and summer lay for a brief moment upon the land.

The Martian Chronicles (1950)

You make to die
You are the dead
You the assassin of yourself.

Christ, Old Student in a New School (1972)

I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.

Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

On my world, such comets are known as pilgrim visitors, far-traveling specters, haunters of the feast. You see? Our history has as much romantic nonsense as yours.

Now and Forever (2007)

We poisoned it with laughter. All around within it we rose, we fell, we rose again, mystified by Fate, hysterical with chance. We fired our laughs like cannons at its heart!

Now and Forever (2007)

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

I believe the universe created us — we are an audience for miracles. In that sense, I guess, I'm religious.

Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

While our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.

his Preface to Zen in the Art of Writing (1990)

The telephone rang like a spoiled brat.

The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)

A life's work should be based on love.

Barnes & Nobel Santa Monica Promenade Book Signing (2008)

My job is to help you fall in love.

Speech at Brown University (1995)

And I saw then and there you take a man half-bad and a woman half-bad and put their two good halves together and you got one human all good to share between. That's you, Will, for my money.

Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962)

I’ve done a prideful thing, a thing more sinful than she ever done to me. I took the bottom out of her life.

The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)

Leave off losings, and take on winnings, Erase all mortal ends, give birth to only new beginnings,
In a billion years of morning and a billion years of sleep.

Christ, Old Student in a New School (1972)

Don’t mind me, Miss Adams. You ever smell new books? Binding, pages, print. Like fresh bread when you’re hungry.

Exchange (1996)

In touch! There’s a slimy phrase. Touch, hell. Gripped! Pawed, rather. Mauled and massaged and pounded by FM voices.

The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)

We have too many cellphones. We've got too many Internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

All silence is.
All emptiness.
And now:
The dawn.

A.E. Van Vogt was not strange, he was kind.

SF Authors Remember A.E. van Vogt (2000)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ray Bradbury (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.