Feel Quotes

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

Ray Bradbury

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I don't believe in colleges and universities.

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My goal is to entertain myself and others.

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I got started as an actor when I was 12.

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Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores.

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I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life.

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Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

Ray Bradbury

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I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.

Ray Bradbury

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When you're older you want to learn from other people.

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If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

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The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

Ray Bradbury

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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Ray Bradbury

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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

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We've gotta reinvest in space travel. We should've never left the moon.

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Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

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When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

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I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money.

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I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.

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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

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I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

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Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, 'Do this, do that,' but it's my demon who provokes me.

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A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.

Ray Bradbury

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We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

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First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right.

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I've only written one science-fiction book: 'Fahrenheit 451.' That book is a book based on real facts and my hatred of people who destroy books.

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The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

Ray Bradbury

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I find it amusing that I'm on the Internet now, because I've criticized it, but mainly I've criticized it on the basis of, 'What are you going to do with it?'

Ray Bradbury

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If you're embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn't include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

Ray Bradbury

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When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn't exist. TV didn't exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.

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I have a big box of autographs. I took photographs of me and Marlene Dietrich, me and Ida Lupino. I took pictures of Myrna Loy and Joel McCrea in front of the studios. I loved Hollywood. I have 500 autographs and 500 photographs I took.

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My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god.

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I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Ray Bradbury

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When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents' boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing 'Amazing Stories,' with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination.

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You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do - and they don't. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don't want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who's the bore of all time.

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In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

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