02c. 1966 ADThere were differences between memories and dreams. He had only dreams of things he had wanted to do, while Lespere had memories of things done and accomplished.Ray Bradbury / quote ↗
03c. 1966 ADI have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.Ray Bradbury / quote ↗
04c. 1966 ADOh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, know power, accept, and need not mention it. Why speak of time when you are Time, and shape the universal moments, as they pass, into warmth and action? How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever.Ray Bradbury / quote ↗
05c. 1966 ADThere was her face, like a summer peach, beautiful and warm, and the light of the candles reflected in her dark eyes. [He] held his breath. The entire world waited and held its breath.Ray Bradbury / quote ↗
06c. 1966 ADOr we'll go that way. Or we'll walk on the highways now, and we'll have time to putthings into ourselves. And some day, after it sets in us a long time, it'll come out ofour hands and our mouths. And a lot of it will be wrong, but just enough of it will beright. We'll just start walking today and see the world and the way the world walksaround and talks, the way it really looks. I want to see everything now. And whilenone of it will be me when it goes in, after a while it'll all gather together inside and it'llbe me. Look at the world out there, my God, my God, look at it out there, outside me,out there beyond my face and the only way to really touch it is to put it where it'sfinally me, where it's in the blood, where it pumps around a thousand times tenthousand a day. I get hold of it so it'll never run off. I'll hold on to the world tight someday. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.Ray Bradbury / quote ↗
07c. 1966 ADBut souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again.Ray Bradbury / quote ↗
08c. 1966 ADThey stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it meant to own a world and how big a world really was.Ray Bradbury / quote ↗
10c. 1966 ADSo while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.Ray Bradbury / quote ↗
11c. 1966 ADYou don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.Ray Bradbury / quote ↗
13c. 1966 ADHe stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty. There was more than enough here to fill him. There would always be more than enough.Ray Bradbury / quote ↗
14c. 1966 ADWe are all bits and pieces of history and literature and international law.Ray Bradbury / quote ↗
15c. 1966 ADWhy the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe when it dies?Ray Bradbury / quote ↗
16c. 1966 ADNo," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it.Ray Bradbury / quote ↗
17c. 1966 ADWe haven't been too bad, have we?""No, nor enormously good. I suppose that's the trouble - we haven't been much of anything except us, while a big part of the world was busy being lots of awful things.Ray Bradbury / quote ↗
18c. 1966 ADI was a crazy creature with a head full of carnival spangles until I was thirty, and then the only man I ever really cared for stopped waiting and married someone else. So in spite, in anger at myself, I told myself I deserved my: fate for not having married when the best chance was at hand. I started traveling. My luggage was snowed under blizzards of travel stickers. I have been alone in Paris, alone in Vienna, alone in London, and all in all, it is very much like being alone in Green Town, Illinois. It is, in essence, being alone. Oh, you have plenty of time to think, improve your manners, sharpen your conversations. But I sometimes think I could easily trade a verb tense or a curtsy for some company that would stay over for a thirty-year weekend.Ray Bradbury / quote ↗
19c. 1966 ADDon’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.Ray Bradbury / quote ↗
20c. 1966 ADWill any of those men under you ever really understand all this? They're professional cynics, and it's too late for them. Why do you want to go back with them? So you can keep up with the Joneses? To buy a gyro just like the Smith has? To listen to music with your pocketbook instead of your glands?Ray Bradbury / quote ↗
21c. 1966 ADHer eyes reversed into herself, to watch the secret heart of herself pounding itself into pieces against the side of her chest.Ray Bradbury / quote ↗
22c. 1966 ADThe ability to "fantasize" is the ability to survive. It's wonderful to speak about this subject because there have been so many wrong-headed people dealing with it.... The so-called realists are trying to drive us insane, and I refuse to be driven insane.... We survive by fantasizing. Take that away from us and the whole damned human race goes down the drain.Ray Bradbury / quote ↗
24c. 1966 ADInto the air, over the valleys, under the stars, above a river, a pond, a road, flew Cecy. Invisible as new spring winds, fresh as the breath of clover rising from twilight fields, she flew.Ray Bradbury / quote ↗
