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“Thinking little at all about nothing in particular.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

“Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

“And suddenly everything, absolutely everything, was there.”

Ray Bradbury book Dandelion Wine

Source: Dandelion Wine

“Suddenly the day was gone,
night came out from under each tree and spread.”

Ray Bradbury book The Halloween Tree

Source: The Halloween Tree

“Do you ever read any of the books you burn?"
He laughed. "That's against the law!"
"Oh. Of course.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

“No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now.”

Ray Bradbury book Dandelion Wine

Source: Dandelion Wine

“I'm interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them.”

Ray Bradbury

The Paris Review interview (2010)
Context: I don’t understand writers who have to work at it. I like to play. I’m interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them.

“The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.”

Ray Bradbury book The Golden Apples of the Sun

The Murderer (1953)
The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)
Context: Then I went in and shot the televisor, that insidious beast, that Medusa, which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little, but myself always going back, going back hoping and waiting until—bang!

“But no man's a hero to himself.”

Ray Bradbury book Something Wicked This Way Comes

Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes

“He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

“Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic.”

Ray Bradbury book The October Country

Source: The October Country

“The television is 'real'. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn't time to protest, 'What nonsense!'.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

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

Ray Bradbury book The Martian Chronicles

Usher II (1950)
Source: The Martian Chronicles (1950)

“In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.”

Ray Bradbury

Source: Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity

“I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they're going.”

Ray Bradbury

“When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die.”

Ray Bradbury book The Halloween Tree

Source: The Halloween Tree

“Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.”

Ray Bradbury book The Martian Chronicles

Source: The Martian Chronicles

“And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again…”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

“Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451