"...one thirty-five. Thursday morning, November 4th,... one thirty-six... one thirty-seven a.m...."[...]"...one forty-five..." The voice-clock mourned out the cold colour of a cold morning of a still colder year.
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
- Ray Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012)
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“Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
The October Country - Book Cover
*Originally published under the title "The Naming of Names"
“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, The Illustrated Man
My heart did not beat, it exploded.
I did not warm to a subject, I boiled over.
I have always run fast and yelled loud about a list of great and magical things I knew I simply could not live without.
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
Happy 100th birthday, Ray Bradbury (b. 22 August 1920)