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“October in the Chair,” Neil Gaiman, featured in M is for Magic
“we need not destroy the horrific whale of reality, we may lurk inside it with machineries, plotting our destinies and going our terror-fraught ways toward an hour when we can lie under those stranger suns and bask easy and breathe light and know peace.”
— ray bradbury, “the ardent blasphemers,” introduction to 20,000 leagues under the sea by jules verne
The Martian Chronicles - art by Ian Miller (1979)
“If we listened to our intellect we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go in business because we’d be cynical: “It’s gonna go wrong.” Or “She’s going to hurt me.” Or, “I’ve had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore …” Well, that’s nonsense. You’re going to miss life. You’ve got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.”
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Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) American writer, futurist, fabulist
“The ability to fantasize is the ability to survive”, ink on paper, 2021. Dedicated to the mystical Ray Bradbury. Happy birthday to me
The years go by. The time flies. Every single second is a moment in time that passes. And it seems like nothing - but when you’re looking back... well, it amounts to everything.
-- Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles (USA/UK, 1980).
Science fiction is also a great way to pretend you are writing about the future when in reality you are attacking the recent past and the present.
Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) American writer, futurist, fabulist
(via macrolit)
When we forget how close the wilderness is in the night, my grandpa said, some day it will come in and get us, for we will have forgotten how terrible and real it can be.
― Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451)
I’m seventeen and I’m crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (via quotespile)
—Somewhere a Band is Playing, Ray Bradbury
[text ID: Somewhere a band is playing
Oh listen, oh listen that tune!
If you learn it you’ll dance on forever
In June and yet June and more June.
And Death will be dumb and not clever
And Death will lie silent forever
In June and June and more June.]
“I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn’t forget, I’m alive, I know I’m alive, I mustn’t forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that.”
— Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine (Green Town, #1)
“We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.”
— Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
There Will Come Soft Rains
“And one voice, with sublime disregard for the situation, read poetry aloud in the fiery study, until all the film spools burned, until all the wires withered and the circuits cracked.”
— Ray Bradbury
“Sunsets we always liked because they only happen once and go away. “But, Lena, that’s sad.” No, if the sunset stayed and we got bored, that would be a real sadness.”
— Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine (Green Town, #1)
“How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?”
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Ray Bradbury, from Fahrenheit 451 (Ballantine Books 1953)
““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 the other.””
— Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Crowd
“How swiftly a crowd comes… like the iris of an eye closing in out of nowhere.”
— Ray Bradbury
"Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them."
-Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
‘It’s not you I worry about,’ said Douglas. ‘It’s the way God runs the world.’
Tom thought about this for a moment.
‘He’s all right, Doug,’ said Tom. ‘He tries.’
Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
Ray Bradbury - The Leviathan 2 (Joseph Mugnaini)
Ray Bradbury - The Hound (Joseph Mugnaini)
You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
“Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.”
— Ray Bradbury
The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse
“The mob-mind, said his subconscious. You're symbolic of the crowd. They came to study the dreadful vulgarity of this imaginary Mass Man they pretend to hate. But they're fascinated with the snake-pit.”
— Ray Bradbury
“The trouble with Jim was he looked at the world and could not look away. And when you never look away all your life, by the time you are thirteen you have done twenty years taking in the laundry of the world.”
— Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury