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“Everyone has a telephone. Whether they can afford it or not. It's one of those things that people have, regardless of their income.”

Quote by Ray Bradbury

Book:Conversations with Ray Bradbury

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Conversations with Ray Bradbury

Conversations with Ray Bradbury is a compilation of in-depth discussions with the celebrated author Ray Bradbury. The book delves into Bradbury's perspectives on the craft of writing, his inspirations, and his views on various aspects of life and society. It provides a unique glimpse into the mind of one of science fiction's most influential figures. more

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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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“We're a free society; we've got television. We have radio. We have newspapers. We have the videocassette, which is coming into play. These are new freedoms.”

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“Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.”

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“My stories are warnings; they're not predictions. If they were predictions, I wouldn't do them. Because then I'd be part of the doom-ridden psychology. But every time I name a problem, I try to give a solution.”

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Author:Ray Bradbury

“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”

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“You must never name the goal. You must never tell us the target you're hitting for. You must automatically go toward it without ever naming it.”

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Author:Ray Bradbury

“I don't like the kind of writer who's out to change the world and beat up on people for their own good. Stalin did that and Hitler did that, and to hell with them.”

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“I'm trying to teach people of all ages to, number one: how to criticize, how to offer creative analysis on top of that, how to try to build things in a new direction and how to compliment people when the thing gets done.”

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“If you love people you criticize them, and if you don't love them you don't criticize them, you let them go to hell, don't you? To help any kind of friendship, your marriage, your children, you criticize because you love.”

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