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Quotes from The Martian Chronicles — Ray Bradbury

1920–2012 United States

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I’m being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it’s not polite.

The Martian Chronicles (1950)

Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.

The Martian Chronicles (1950)

The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.

The Martian Chronicles (1950)

I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I’ve got what amounts to a religion, now.

The Martian Chronicles (1950)

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)

We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big beautiful things. The only reason we didn’t set up hot-dog stands in the midst of the Egyptian temple of Karnak is because it was out of the way and served no large commercial purpose.

The Martian Chronicles (1950)

They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or another, political bias, religious prejudice, union pressures; there was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.

The Martian Chronicles (1950)

Attribution

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