Ray Douglas Bradbury, 1920 - 2012
Portrait by Alan Light (August 1975)
Born: 22 August 1920, Waukegan, Illinois
Died: 5 June 2012, Los Angeles, California
Biography from Wikipedia and The New York Times obituary
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- "Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course." permalink
Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451 (1953) - A book is a loaded gun in the house next door.... Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? permalink
Ray Bradbury - Part 1: The Hearth and the Salamander, Fahrenheit 451 (1953) - A book is a loaded gun. permalink
Ray Bradbury - Part 1: The Hearth and the Salamander, Fahrenheit 451 (1953) - A good night's sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine. permalink
Ray Bradbury - Dandelion Wine (1957) - A life's work should be based on love. permalink
Ray Bradbury - A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if, half an hour before, you spent just ten minutes with the fellow and knew a little about him and his family, you might just jump in front of his killer and try to stop it. Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. permalink
Ray Bradbury - Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) - Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it. permalink
Ray Bradbury - And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is gift and a privilege, not a right. We must earn life once it has been awarded us. Life asks for rewards back because it has favored us with animation. So 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. permalink
Ray Bradbury - preface to Zen in the Art of Writing (1990) - Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. permalink
Ray Bradbury - 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. permalink
Ray Bradbury - Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers. permalink
Ray Bradbury - Dandelion Wine (1957) - 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. permalink
Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451 (1953) - Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones. permalink
Ray Bradbury - "Coda", afterward to reissue of Fahrenheit 451 (1979) - Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go. permalink
Ray Bradbury - Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore. permalink
Ray Bradbury - Part 2: The Sieve and the Sand Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
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