Quotes from Death Is a Lonely Business

“Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.”
― Ray Bradbury, quote from Death Is a Lonely Business

“A day without writing was a little death.”
― Ray Bradbury, quote from Death Is a Lonely Business

“What should I do?"
"Throw up in your typewriter every morning."
"Yeah."
"Clean up every noon.”
― Ray Bradbury, quote from Death Is a Lonely Business

“Someone who loved night arrivals and dark departures, for the hell, the fun, the death of it?”
― Ray Bradbury, quote from Death Is a Lonely Business

“With nothing trembles.
To be afraid of nothing for no reason. And having to live with that nothing until dawn.”
― Ray Bradbury, quote from Death Is a Lonely Business

“Perhaps I expected to look in and find a giant canary, stretched out on a carpet of dust, songless, capable of only heart murmurs for talk.”
― Ray Bradbury, quote from Death Is a Lonely Business

“Whenever I am very happy or very sad or very embarrassed, I cram my mouth with sweets and litter the breezeway with discards.

Когда я очень счастлив, или очень огорчен, или смущен, я всегда набиваю рот сладостями и бросаю обертки где попало.”
― Ray Bradbury, quote from Death Is a Lonely Business

“Will power is the answer. Will power. No white bread, no Nestle's Crunch bars... I flinched and felt the last of the bars melting in my pockets.

На все вопросы ответ один — сила воли! Исключительно сила воли. Никаких булок, никаких шоколадных плиток… Я моргнул и почувствовал, как последняя из шоколадок тает у меня в кармане.”
― Ray Bradbury, quote from Death Is a Lonely Business

“We all just gave up on that and stayed friends.

Мы просто перестали об этом говорить и остались друзьями.”
― Ray Bradbury, quote from Death Is a Lonely Business

“I took the candy wrappers shamefacedly, and felt the extra ten pounds sag around my middle as I held these flags of defeat.

Я стыдливо взял конфетные обертки — эти свидетельства моего поражения, — чувствуя, как еще десять лишних фунтов нарастают у меня на боках.”
― Ray Bradbury, quote from Death Is a Lonely Business

“Everyone in the world needs two, three jobs,” I said, without hesitation. “One job isn’t enough, just as one life isn’t enough. I want to have a dozen of both.” “Bull’s-eye. Doctors should dig ditches. Ditchdiggers ought to run kindergartens one day a week. Philosophers should wash dishes in a greasy spoon two nights out of ten. Mathematicians should blow whistles at high school gyms. Poets should drive trucks for a change of menu and police detectives—” “Should own and operate the Garden of Eden,” I said, quietly.”
― Ray Bradbury, quote from Death Is a Lonely Business

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