Ray Bradbury híres idézetei
Ray Bradbury: Idézetek angolul
Ray Bradbury könyv Zen in the Art of Writing
Forrás: Zen in the Art of Writing
“I’m really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don’t remember!”
Ray Bradbury könyv Dandelion Wine
Forrás: Dandelion Wine
“I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.”
Ray Bradbury könyv Fahrenheit 451
Forrás: Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury könyv Fahrenheit 451
Forrás: Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury könyv Something Wicked This Way Comes
Forrás: Something Wicked This Way Comes
“Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.”
Ray Bradbury könyv The October Country
Forrás: The October Country
Ray Bradbury könyv The Martian Chronicles
Forrás: The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury könyv Fahrenheit 451
Forrás: Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury könyv Fahrenheit 451
Forrás: Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury könyv Fahrenheit 451
Forrás: Fahrenheit 451 (1953), Coda (1979)
Kontextus: For, let's face it, 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. Laurence Sterne said it once: Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Restore them to the writer - he steps forth like a bridegroom, bids them all-hail, brings in variety and forbids the appetite to fail.
Ray Bradbury könyv Dandelion Wine
Forrás: Dandelion Wine (1957), p. 142
Kontextus: “I don’t know,” he admitted.
“Well.” She started pouring tea. “To start things off, what do you think of the world?”
“I don’t know anything.”
“The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you’re seventeen you know everything. When you’re twenty-seven if you still know everything you’re still seventeen.”
“You seem to have learned quite a lot over the years.”
“It is the privilege of old people to seem to know everything. But it’s an act and a mask, like every other act and mask. Between ourselves, we old ones wink at each other and smile, saying, How do you like my mask, my act, my certainty? Isn’t life a play? Don’t I play it well?”
They both laughed quietly.
Ray Bradbury könyv Fahrenheit 451
Forrás: Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury könyv Fahrenheit 451
Forrás: Fahrenheit 451
“We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth”
Ray Bradbury könyv Zen in the Art of Writing
Forrás: Zen in the Art of Writing
“Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.”
Ray Bradbury könyv Zen in the Art of Writing
Forrás: Zen in the Art of Writing
Ray Bradbury könyv Something Wicked This Way Comes
Forrás: Something Wicked This Way Comes
“The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.”
Ray Bradbury könyv Fahrenheit 451
Forrás: Fahrenheit 451
“Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.”
Ray Bradbury könyv The Illustrated Man
Forrás: The Illustrated Man
“Can't you recognize the human in the inhuman?”
Ray Bradbury könyv The Martian Chronicles
Forrás: The Martian Chronicles
“Thinking little at all about nothing in particular.”
Ray Bradbury könyv Fahrenheit 451
Forrás: Fahrenheit 451
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