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Ray Bradbury on Anniversary

1920–2012 United States

← All quotes by Ray Bradbury

11 quotes

News junkies love to read about others misery.

Now and Forever (2007)

At the center of religion is love … Everything in our life should be based on love.

Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.

The Martian Chronicles (1950)

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.

Fahrenheit 451 (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)

Sunsets are loved because they vanish.

At the center of religion is love. I love you and I forgive you. I am like you and you are like me. I love all people. I love the world. I love creating. Everything in our life should be based on love.

There is no reason to write pornography when your own sex life is good. Why waste time writing about it?

Playboy interview (1996)

In that film Love Story, there’s a line, “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” That’s the dumbest thing I ever heard. Love means saying you’re sorry every day for some little thing or other.

The Paris Review interview (2010)

Don't tell me how to write my novel. Don't tell me you've got a better ending for it. I have no time for that.

Playboy interview (1996)

Attribution

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