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Quotes from Something Wicked This Way Comes — Ray Bradbury

1920–2012 United States

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They eat the dark, who only stand and breathe.

Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962)

Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts.

Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962)

And the odd thing in Dad’s voice was the sound truth makes being said. The sound of truth, in a wild roving land of city or plain country lies, will spell any boy.

Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962)

God, how we get our fingers in each other’s clay. That’s friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of the other.

Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962)

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)

If I was ever a rare fine summer person, that's long ago. Most of us are half-and-half. The August noon in us works to stave off the November chills. We survive by what little Fourth of July wits we've stashed away. But there are times when we're all autumn people.

Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962)

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