He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out. Ray Bradbury More Quotes by Ray Bradbury More Quotes From Ray Bradbury Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change. Don’t give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy. Ray Bradbury philosophy lying moving When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How could they!--when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!? Ray Bradbury fire sky book Facts quite often, I fear to confess, like lawyers, put me to sleep at noon. Not theories, however. Theories are invigorating and tonic. Give me an ounce of fact and I will produce you a ton of theory by tea this afternoon. That is, after all, my job. Ray Bradbury sleep jobs giving We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth. Ray Bradbury dies art We've got to reinvest in space travel. We should have never left the moon. Ray Bradbury space moon should-have You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. Ray Bradbury writing inspirational reality Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge. Ray Bradbury pieces civilization Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter. Longchenpa Let's stuff our eyes with wonder, let's live as if we'd drop dead in ten seconds. Let's see the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ray Bradbury rest-in-peace laughter dream We've let too much time go by. We've been busy with war instead of being busy with peace. And that's what space travel is all about. It's all about peace and exploration and wonder and beauty. Ray Bradbury too-much space war Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here. Ray Bradbury world A book is a loaded gun. Ray Bradbury loaded gun book We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly. Ray Bradbury yesterday morning thinking Why would you clone people when you can go to bed with them and make a baby? C'mon, it's stupid. Ray Bradbury stupid baby funny I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it. Ray Bradbury predicting predicting-the-future trying We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe Ray Bradbury breathe art needs Miraculously, smoke curled out of his own mouth, his nose, his ears, his eyes, as if his soul had been extinguished within his lungs at the very moment the sweet pumpkin gave up its incensed ghost. Ray Bradbury eye soul sweet In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world. Ray Bradbury color reading book Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together. Ray Bradbury together two believe Action is hope. At the end of each day, when you've done your work, you lie there and think, Well, I'll be damned, I did this today. It doesn't matter how good it is, or how bad-you did it. At the end of the week you'll have a certain amount of accumulation. At the end of a year, you look back and say, I'll be damned, it's been a good year. Ray Bradbury lying years thinking There are two races of people -- men and women -- no matter what women's libbers would have you pretend. The male is motivated by toys and science because men are born with no purpose in the universe except to procreate. There is lots of time to kill beyond that. They've got to find work. Men have no inherent center to themselves beyond procreating. Women, however, are born with a center. They can create the universe, mother it, teach it, nurture it. Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future. Ray Bradbury women race mother
