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“Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do.”

Quote by Ray Bradbury

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Ray Bradbury, born on August 22, 1920, and died on June 5, 2012, was an influential American science fiction writer, playwright, and poet. His works are known for their unique imagination and profound philosophical insights, which have had a profound impact on the science fiction genre. more

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“There are two races of people -- men and women -- no matter what women's libbers would have you pretend. The male is motivated by toys and science because men are born with no purpose in the universe except to procreate. There is lots of time to kill beyond that. They've got to find work. Men have no inherent center to themselves beyond procreating. Women, however, are born with a center. They can create the universe, mother it, teach it, nurture it. Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.”

People Men Needs Two Matter Mother Purpose Universe Women Born Race Fiction Teach Men And Women No Matter What Science Fiction Males Motivated Toys Inherent Nurture Time To Kill

Author:Ray Bradbury

“I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living too much in the past - a combination of both.”

Two Past Half Too Much Combination Warning Pollyanna Janus

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft.”

People Men Lying Asks Waiting Old Man Elevators Wheezing

Author:Ray Bradbury

“I believe in Darwin and God together.”

Believe Together I Believe I Believe In

Author:Ray Bradbury

“If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Writing Looks Able Know How Fool Paper

Author:Ray Bradbury

“People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it.”

People Want Asks Ask Me Predicting Predicting The Future Building The Future

Author:Ray Bradbury

“In that film Love Story, there's a line, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." That's the dumbest thing I ever heard. Love means saying you're sorry every day for some little thing or other.”

Love Mean Littles Stories Film Lines Heard Sorry Love Story Little Things Love Means

Author:Ray Bradbury

“The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes.”

Eye Silence Billions Breathing Diamond Leafs Insects Jungle Vastness Moss Emeralds

Book:Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales

Source: Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales

“All silence is. All emptiness. And now: The dawn.”

Silence Dawn Emptiness Silence Is

Book:When elephants last in the dooryard bloomed: celebrations for almost any day in the year

Source: When elephants last in the dooryard bloomed: celebrations for almost any day in the year

“I believe the universe created us - we are an audience for miracles. In that sense, I guess, I'm religious.”

Believe Universe I Believe Religious Audience Miracle

Author:Ray Bradbury