Ray Bradbury Zitate

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„Lebe so, als würdest du in zehn Sekunden tot umfallen.“

„Sie müssen keine Bücher verbrennen, um eine Kultur zu zerstören. Lass die Leute einfach aufhören, diese zu lesen.“

„Ohne die Bibliothek gibt es keine Zivilisation.“

„Bleibe betrunken beim Schreiben, damit die Realität dich nicht vernichten kann.“

„Es gibt schlimmere Verbrechen als Bücher zu verbrennen. Eines von ihnen ist es, sie nicht zu lesen“

„Bücher sind Ideen aus Fleisch und Blut und schreien lautlos, wenn sie an die Fackel gelegt werden.“

„Spring - und lass dir auf dem Weg nach unten Flügel wachsen“

„Ich neige dazu zu glauben, dass Sie den Psychiater brauchen.“

„Niemand ist jemals gestorben, der eine Familie hatte.“

„Es war eine kleine Stadt an einem kleinen Fluß und einem kleinen See in einem kleinen Teil eines Staates im mittleren Westen.“

„Ich glaube nicht an den anthropomorphen Gott.“

„Man kann die Leute nicht zum Zuhören bringen.“

„Sag mir nicht, wie ich meinen Roman schreiben soll. Sag mir nicht, dass du ein besseres Ende dafür hast. Ich habe keine Zeit dafür.“

„Drei Dinge sind in Ihrem Kopf: Erstens alles, was Sie vom Tag Ihrer Geburt bis jetzt erlebt haben.“

„Nachdem ich Sie gründlich verwirrt habe, lassen Sie mich innehalten, um Ihren eigenen bestürzten Schrei zu hören.“

„Die Retter Gottes feiern das Leben in der Welt.“

„Bibliotheken haben mich großgezogen.“

“Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.”

“And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.”

“I’m really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don’t remember!”

“I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.”

“She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why…. Luckily, queer ones like her don't happen often.”

“Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.”

“These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes them want to live in other ways they can never really be.”

“How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?”

“Why 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?”

“Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.”

“Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.”

“I'm not anyone, I'm just myself; whatever I am, I am something, and now I'm something you can't help.”

“For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead… We're nothing more than dust jackets for books… so many pages to a person…”

“I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago.
For a little while I'm not afraid.
Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last.
Maybe it's because I've done a rash thing and don't want to look the coward to you.”

“Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.”

“The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.”

“My gosh, if you’re going away, we got a million things to talk about! All the things we would’ve talked about next month, the month after! Praying mantises, zeppelins, acrobats, sword swallowers!”

“He 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.”

“Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable people want only the faces of the full moon, wax, faces without pores, hairless, expressionless.”

“We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth”

“Sunsets we always liked because they only happen once and go away."
"But, Lena, that's sad."
"No, if the sunset stayed and we got bored, that would be a real sadness.”

“Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.”

“Beware the autumn people”

“Creativity is a continual surprise.”

“The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere.”

“The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.”

“Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.”

“Can't you recognize the human in the inhuman?”

“Thinking little at all about nothing in particular.”