Ray Bradbury
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FILE - This April 25, 2009 file photo shows author Ray Bradbury attending The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at The University of California in Los Angeles. Bradbury, who wrote everything from science-fiction and mystery to humor, died Tuesday, June 5, 2012 in Southern California. He was 91. (AP Photo/Katy Winn, file) (credit:AP)
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FILE - This Nov. 15, 2000 file photo shows science fiction writer Ray Bradbury at the National Book Awards in New York where he was given the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Bradbury, who wrote everything from science-fiction and mystery to humor, died Tuesday, June 5, 2012 in Southern California. He was 91. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file) (credit:AP)
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FILE - This Jan. 29, 1997 file photo shows author Ray Bradbury at a signing for his book "Quicker Than The Eye" in Cupertino, Calif. Bradbury, who wrote everything from science-fiction and mystery to humor, died Tuesday, June 5, 2012 in Southern California. He was 91. (AP Photo/Steve Castillo, file) (credit:AP)
(05 of05)
In this image released by Simon & Schuster, the cover of "Fahrenheit 451," by Ray Bradbury, is shown. (AP Photo/Simon & Schuster) (credit:AP)
Ray Bradbury Quotes
(01 of11)
"Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage."From 'The Meadow', originally a radio play for the World Security Workshop; later revised into a short-story for the anthology The Golden Apples of the SunIMAGE: STEFANO PALTERA/AP/Press Association Images
(02 of11)
"People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better."From Beyond 1984: The People MachinesIMAGE: AP/Press Association Images
(03 of11)
"Stuff your eyes with wonder. Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made up or paid for in factories." From Fahrenheit 451
(04 of11)
"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things."IMAGE: STEVE CASTILLO/AP/Press Association Images
(05 of11)
"I wonder how many men, hiding their youngness, rise as I do, Saturday mornings, filled with the hope that Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam and Daffy Duck will be there waiting as our one true always and forever salvation?"From 'Why Cartoons Are Forever', Los Angeles Times (3 December 1989)IMAGE: Paul Smith/EMPICS Entertainment
(06 of11)
"If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn." Faber in Fahrenheit 451
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"Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future."IMAGE: All Action/EMPICS Entertainment
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"There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel."From BookExpo America, Los Angeles (May 2008).IMAGE: DOUG PIZAC/AP/Press Association Images
(09 of11)
"My job is to help you fall in love." Speech at Brown University, 1995IMAGE: MARK LENNIHAN/AP/Press Association Images
(10 of11)
"Science-fiction is the law-abiding citizen of imaginative literature, obeying the rules, be they physical, social, or psychological, keeping regular hours, eating punctual meals; predictable, certain, sure."From the Introduction to The Circus of Dr. Lao
(11 of11)
"We are anthill men upon an anthill world."IMAGE: LENNOX MCLENDON/AP/Press Association Images
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