It Was A Quiet Morning, The Town Covered Over With Darkness And At Ease In Bed. Summer Gathered In The

It was a quiet morning, the town covered over with darkness and at ease in bed. Summer gathered in the weather, the wind had the proper touch, the breathing of the world was long and warm and slow. You had only to rise, lean from your window, and know that this indeed was the first real time of freedom and living, this was the first morning of summer.

— Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine (William Morrow Paperbacks; April 23, 2013) (via Cultural Offering)

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"To think that thought could live that long! A million years, perhaps, all these thoughts of death and disorder and conquest, lingering in the innocent but poisonous air of the planet, waiting for a real man to give them a channel through which they might issue again in all their senseless virulence."

Asleep in Armageddon, Ray Bradbury

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Illustration Of The Long Rain By Ray Bradbury. Art By Cristina Bencina.

Illustration of The Long Rain by Ray Bradbury. Art by Cristina Bencina.

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Happy Birthday, Ray Bradbury!

Happy Birthday, Ray Bradbury!

August 22, 1920

“I’ll make a sound that’s so alone that no one can miss it, that whoever hears it will weep in their souls, and hearths will seem warmer, and being inside will seem better to all who hear it in the distant towns.”

The Fog Horn, Ray Bradbury


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9 months ago
Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles, 1950

Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles, 1950

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Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there. It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 [ID in ALT]

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The Halloween Tree By Ray Bradbury, 1972

The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury, 1972

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"It was September. In the last days when things are getting sad for no reason."

– Ray Bradbury

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2 unusual editions of Bradbury’s ‘Fahrenheit 451’.

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