“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
Ray Bradbury
Born place: in Waukegan, Illinois, The United States
Born date August 22, 1920
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“You take a straight tip from the stable, Cokey, if you must hate, hate the government or the people or the sea or men, but don't hate an individual person. Who's done you a real injury. Next thing you know he'll be getting into your beer like prussic acid; and blotting out your eyes like a cataract and screaming in your ears like a brain tumour and boiling round your heart like melted lead and ramping though your guts like a cancer. And a nice fool you'd look if he knew. It would make him laugh till his teeth dropped out; from old age.”
― Joyce Cary, quote from The Horse's Mouth
“You see, literary culture is perpetually dead and dying; and when some respected writer discovers and loudly proclaims the finality of this fact, it is a forensic marker of their own decomposition. It means that they have artistically expired within the last ten years, and that they will corporeally expire within the next twenty.”
― Paul Collins, quote from Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books
“Dorothy scratched her dark head, yawning wide, and white feathers floated out of her hair.”
― Laurie Lee, quote from Cider With Rosie
“There seemed to be handfuls of stars tossed right above the rooftops in Haddan, keeping the town still alight at midnight.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The River King
“I'm a demon, not a pig, so I keep the place relatively neat.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
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