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- Ray Bradbury: American science-fiction writer
- Malcolm Bradbury: English author and academic
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A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.
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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.
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I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for ten years.
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I don't control my writing - it controls me.
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I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
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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.
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I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
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If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
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If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
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If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.
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In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story - 'The Memory Erasers'.
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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down
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My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.
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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
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Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
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The important thing is to be in love with something.
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