American author (1920-2012)
I am the dreamer and the doer
I the hearer and the knower
I the giver and the taker
I the sword and the wound of sword.
If this be true, then let sword fall free from hand.
I embrace myself.
I laugh until I weep
And weep until I smile ...
RAY BRADBURY
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Christ, Old Student in a New School
Mars is opening up. It's a frontier now, like in the old days on Earth, out West, and in Alaska. Men are pouring up here. There's a couple thousand black Irish mechanics and miners and day laborers in First Town who need saving, because there're too many wicked women came with them, and too much ten-century-old Martian wine.
RAY BRADBURY
The Illustrated Man
Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.
RAY BRADBURY
introduction, The Circus of Dr. Lao
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.
RAY BRADBURY
Coda
Mars is like that uncleaned closet we have neglected for millenniums. Sin has collected there like bric-a-brac. Mars is twice Earth's age and has had double the number of Saturday nights, liquor baths, and eye-poppings at women as naked as white seals. When we open that closet door, things will fall on us.
RAY BRADBURY
The Illustrated Man
Science-fiction works hand-in-glove with the universe.
RAY BRADBURY
introduction, The Circus of Dr. Lao and Other Improbable Stories
A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time ... I was born out of New York. The things that are most wrong here summoned me.
RAY BRADBURY
Long After Midnight
I wonder ... if Mars is hell? Only waiting for our arrival before it bursts into brimstone and fire.
RAY BRADBURY
The Illustrated Man
You don't question Providence. If you can't have the reality, a dream is just as good.
RAY BRADBURY
The Martian Chronicles
One day Earth will be as Mars is today. This will sober us. It's an object lesson in civilizations.
RAY BRADBURY
The Martian Chronicles
Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do.
RAY BRADBURY
Salon.com, August 29, 2001
I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them -- one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.
RAY BRADBURY
attributed, Independent Politics: How American Disdain for Parties Leads to Political Inaction
The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.
RAY BRADBURY
Fahrenheit 451
God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.
RAY BRADBURY
Something Wicked This Way Comes
I laugh until I weep
And weep until I smile
RAY BRADBURY
"Christ, Old Student in a New School"
We must move into the universe. Mankind must save itself. We must escape the danger of war and politics. We must become astronauts and go out into the universe and discover the God in ourselves.
RAY BRADBURY
attributed, CNN: Living, August 2, 2010