Ray Bradbury quotes. From other books
Ray Bradbury is a famous American writer who worked in the genre of science fiction, horror literature and psychological fiction. Attention to his work is growing every year. You will not meet a person with a book by Bradbury anywhere: in the subway, in line at the clinic, at a break in the office or in a cafe. The writer's work has settled in the minds of many, after reading one of his books, there is a need to quench the literary thirst with his other works. We offer you a selection of quotes from the most famous books by Ray Bradbury. Narrating a fantasy world, the writer masterfully exposed reality.
The world-famous writer brought the dystopia "451 degrees Fahrenheit". Other popular works by Bradbury include Dandelion Wine, The Martian Chronicles, Summer Morning, Summer Night and others. Many of his novels have been filmed, many of his stories have been adapted into TV series. This means that Bradbury's work lives not only in literature, but also in cinematography.
I do not think about death, because I will always be here. This box with my films and the shelves with my books convince me that I have a hundred or two years left. Death is a form of retribution with the cosmos for the wonderful luxury of being alive. (Ray Bradbury's Rules of Life)
You need to live, not think about death.
And I'm afraid to love you," he continued. You will torment me again. (April witchcraft)
If once love brought pain, then the fear of falling in love again simply appears.
We don't want to change the Future. Here, in the Past, we are uninvited guests. (A Sound of Thunder)
But in vain, because the future is in your hands and you have the opportunity to make it better.
Sometimes the sun seems to me like a burning tree...
Its golden fruits flutter in the hot air,
Like apples pierced by the juice of gravity,
Exhausted by the human race. (Golden apples of the sun)
The sun sets because it, too, gets tired of human gaze.
We are not obliged to anyone. We have one duty - to be happy. (Holidays)
This is perhaps our greatest responsibility.
Yes, when you remember your life, you see first of all the hands and what they did, and then the faces. They counted in their minds how many lids were lifted, how many doors were opened and shut, how many flowers were gathered, how many dinners were prepared by hasty or slow hands, according to character and habit. Looking back at the past, they saw, as if a sorcerer's dream come true: a whirlwind of hands, swinging doors, turning faucets, flying brooms, living rods. And the only sound was the rustle of fluttering pink hands, everything else was like a silent dream. (Embroidery)
The head thinks, the hands do, embody all thoughts and ideas.
A child cannot live without attachments. You and your wife have allowed this room, this home, to take your place in their hearts. The children's room became mother and father for them, turned out to be much more important in their life than real parents. (Veld)
When you return home, there are not always parents there, but the room is always waiting ...
It is worth wanting - and you will hear anything. (Meadow)
If desired, even the enemy can talk about friendship.
The animal does not inquire what is the meaning of being. It lives. Lives for life. For him, the answer lies in life itself, it contains both joy and pleasure.
The meaning of life is to live and enjoy life.
And can one person be right when the whole world is sure that he is right? (And the moon still silvers the space with rays)
Maybe, why not?)
Everything is always the same: one is waiting for the other, but he is not and is not. (Howler)
The whole of life is that someone is waiting for someone.
Never ask a writer why he is writing, where he is from, where he is going. The time will come, he will tell himself. (April witchcraft)
If a writer writes under a pseudonym, then it must be so. The time will come when he will give his real name.
It's not every day that a person gets a second try. (Martian Chronicles)
And not every year, not like a day.
We are just kids in shorts, noisy and restless kids running around with their rocket and atomic toys. (Martian Chronicles)
In today's world, adults are more and more like children.
Dandelion wine
And yet, how good it is to be at home! So warm, cozy. There is no better place on earth.
Home is the best place in the entire planet.
People who make tennis shoes somehow know what boys want and need.
The only pity is that no one knows what girls want.
Sometimes it seems to me that people are looking for their own death.
Only those who do not value life do this.
I have always believed that true love is determined by the spirit, although the body sometimes refuses to believe this.
Those who are close to each other in spirit fall in love.
There is always gossip about a woman, even if she is already ninety-five.
Such interesting creatures, these women, that they are talked about always and everywhere.
Be what you are, put an end to what you were.
Live in the present and don't carry the burden of the past.
Men are such people - they never understand anything.
And yet they manage to invent a lot ...)
There are a million such towns in the world. And each one is just as dark, just as lonely, each one is just as detached from everything, each one has its own horrors and its own secrets.
And in these towns there are hundreds, thousands, and even millions of families, which also have their own horrors and secrets ...
He was not one of those for whom a sleepless night is torment, on the contrary, when he couldn’t sleep, he lay and indulged in plenty of reflections: how does the giant clockwork of the universe work? Does the factory end in these gigantic clocks, or do they still have long, long millennia to count? Who knows! But endless nights, listening to the darkness, he either decided that the end was near, or that this was only the beginning ...
A night without sleep is not a reason to drink sleeping pills, it is an occasion to reflect on the Universe ...
How nice it is to sit on the veranda on a summer evening; how easy and calm; If only this evening never ended!
Summer evenings are so beautiful that they resemble a fairy tale.
Yes, summer consists of familiar rituals, everyone has their usual time and their usual place.
In the summer, everyone wants to go where he can relax, where his soul feels free…
Adults and children are two different peoples, which is why they are always at war with each other. Look, they are not like us at all. See, we're not like them at all.
The conflict of generations is inevitable, it has always been so.
If you don’t try something for a long time, you will inevitably forget how it happens.
Regularity becomes a habit, irregularity a curiosity.
If you need something, get it yourself...
No one will follow you towards your goals.
From other books
A person in our time is like a paper napkin: they blow their nose into it, crumple it, throw it away, take a new one, blow their nose, crumple, throw it ... ( 451° Fahrenheit)
People began to treat people like things, or even worse.
There are worse crimes than burning books. For example, do not read them. (451° Fahrenheit)
Not being friends with literature is the biggest mistake of a person.
Don't try to judge books by their covers. (451° Fahrenheit)
There is no need to draw conclusions from the first page either ...
It is a flower without aroma, - the old people noticed. - Today, many girls look like such flowers. Touch - and they are paper ... (Summer morning summer night)
The female sex is replete with beauty, take a closer look - and she is artificial ...
You just need to grow up as a person who looks at the world with open eyes and is not deceived. In this case, even human treachery will seem funny, nothing more. When you understand that there is always a particle of evil in human nature, it will be easier for you to endure. (Summer morning summer night)
How can one not be deceived by others, if even oneself sometimes has to be deceived.
Some consciously choose this fate: they crave like crazy for the view outside the window to change every week, every month, every year, but with age they begin to realize that they are only collecting worthless roads and unnecessary cities, no more solid than movie scenery. , and see off with the eyes of mannequins that flicker in the shop windows outside the window of a slow night train. (Summer morning summer night)
Everyone chooses what he likes.
A person hates what ruined him, what ruined his life. That's the way he's made. Unreasonable, perhaps, but such is human nature. (Smile)
If life has gone downhill, how can you love what ruined it so?
Take your time. You'll see: a brainy man will still appear who will patch it up (civilization). Mark my words. A man with a soul. (Smile)
Wonderful incomparable language, poetic metaphors made Ray Bradbury a real writer. There are so many unusually deep thoughts in his prose that one wants to make a quote from each. Especially for you, we have selected the best, in our opinion, quotes and excerpts from the amazing works of this author.
Ray Bradbury is one of the most beloved science fiction writers. Both adults and children read his novels and short stories. We fly with him to Mars, to the future, to the past. We drink from a green bottle a magic potion that restores youth. Once again we return to the cozy Green Town, where eternal summer reigns, and dandelion wine is stored in a cool cellar. Although Bradbury considered himself a science fiction writer, he wrote in very different genres. In addition to science fiction, he has parables, realistic stories, and even fairy tales for adults. The Martian Chronicles, at first glance a fantastic story, is actually not written about Mars, it is written about people, about their future, past and present. The central theme in Bradbury's work is occupied by books and the library. The library in his works is not just a repository of information, but a refuge of Good Forces and Light, capable of resisting Mister Darkness and the people of autumn. So, let's plunge into the world of Bradbury to hear how familiar quotes sound in the author's native language.
1. "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." ― Ray Bradbury
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Enough to make people stop reading.
2. "I'm ALIVE. Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don't watch. Then all of a sudden you look and see what you're doing and it's the first time, really." ― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine.
First you live, you live, you walk, you do something, but you don't even notice it yourself. And then you suddenly see: yeah, I live, walk or breathe there - this is what it really is for the first time.
3. "Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppedpered.” ― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine.
Dandelion wine. These very words are like summer on the tongue. Dandelion wine is a summer caught and bottled.
4. “Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip, for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in.”— Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine.
5. “Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, know power, accept, and need not mention it. Why speak of time when you are Time, and shape the universal moments, as they pass, into warmth and action? How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever.” ― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
Oh, what a strange, wonderful watch these women are. They build nests in Time. They create the flesh that preserves and binds eternity. They live this gift, know their power and silently own it. Why talk about Time, if you yourself are Time and clothe the passing moments in warmth and action? How men envy and how they sometimes hate these warm hours, these wives who know that they will live forever.
6. "Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity." ― Ray Bradbury
Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of inspiration.
7. “First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys. Not that all months aren't rare. But there be bad and good, as the pirates say. Take September, a bad month: school begins. Consider August, a good month: school hasn't begun yet. July, well, July's really fine: there's no chance in the world for school. June, no doubting it, June's best of all, for the school doors spring wide and September's a billion years away." ― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
First of all, we note that it was October, a wonderful month for boys. This is not to say that the rest of the months are no good, but, as the pirates say, there are bad and good. Take, for example, September - a bad month: school starts. Or August is a good month: the holidays are not over yet. July is good, July is simply wonderful: in the whole world there is still nothing that even accidentally reminded of school. June is undoubtedly the best: the beginning of summer, school is far away, and September is still a billion years away ...
Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of humanity. This is self-consciousness, and everything from self-consciousness is lousy. You cannot try to do something. You just have to do something. .
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It is the saddest and at the same time the happiest lot of mankind to measure the distance from where we are to where we want to be. - Ray Bradbury .
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Life is loneliness ... At this moment, everyone has their own, only their own task, and everyone must solve it himself. You're all alone, understand this once and for all. .
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Everyone must leave something behind: a son, a book or a picture, a house you built, or at least a brick wall, or a pair of shoes sewn by you, or a garden planted by your hands. Something that your fingers touched in life, in which your soul will find refuge after death. People will look at the tree or flower you have grown, and at that moment you will be alive... .
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We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. .
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Since we learned to speak, we have been asking one thing: What is the meaning of life? All other questions are absurd when death is behind you. But let us inhabit ten thousand worlds that revolve around ten thousand unfamiliar suns, and there will be no need to ask. Man will have no limits, just as there are no limits in the universe. Man will be eternal like the universe. Individuals will die as they have always died, but our history will stretch into the unimaginable distance of the future, we will know that we will survive in all times to come and become calm and confident, and this is the answer to that eternal question. We have been given life, and at least we must keep this gift and pass it on to posterity - to infinity. It's worth the effort!...
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In the years of your life - live. Don't give up on yourself. Don't walk around with a sour face. .
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Love is when both love mutually. When one loves, it is a disease. .
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We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. .
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Some days it is good to taste, and others to the touch. .
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And yet, how good it is to be at home! So warm, cozy. There is no better place on earth. .
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Order in life is not put in place, it is maintained every day, hour, minute, second. .
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The silence was broken only by the squawking - the sun was roasting the heavens. .
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She [wife] and I are one life experience, we have grown together with millions of sensations. .
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It’s funny, of course, but a person should derive at least some pleasure from his work, otherwise what is the point in it? .
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It's always like this with women: they get married and take on someone else's name in order to disappear without a trace. .
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There are worse crimes than burning books. For example, do not read them. .
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And aren't power and pleasure the essence of your new social order? .
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Forgive me, I can’t, my reader, I’ll tear your skin off alive! .. .
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Gradually she got used to seeing men come and go, this tribe of childish giants, this army of clumsy fools, warriors who imagine that they win when you despise them, that they possess when you make fun of them, that they enjoy when you just give them a taste, this barbarian horde, which you still wait for, as long as life is glimmering in you. .
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Life is an absurd mess. It is like a leaven that wanders for minutes, hours, years or centuries, but sooner or later stops fermenting. The big ones devour the small ones to keep them fermenting. The strong devour the weak ones to keep their strength. Those who are lucky eat more and wander longer than others - that's all! .
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Why are you so good to me? "You've been good to me for almost ten years," Lawrence said sullenly. - Let there be no eleven, but still it's not a trifle. .
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Sometimes instincts and a negative attitude can take over. Later, we deeply regret what we did. But we must not give up - buddhas do not give up. We must learn from our own mistakes and move on. .
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Only death gives each moment its beauty and its horror. It is only through death that time becomes alive. Why does the LORD not know this, the omniscient god? Why does he threaten us with infinity, which means unbearable loneliness? .
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The fourteenth volume is titled as follows: “Can a reasonable person, considering the experience of past centuries, have even the slightest hope for a bright future for mankind?” Reading the Fourteenth volume is not long. It consists of just one word and a period: "No." .
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Were you afraid that you would be arrested, afraid that you would have to answer for what you had done? - No, sir, I was afraid - I would have to answer for what I did not do. .
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People were given exhaustive instructions on how to destroy the creator. People have been taught that addiction is a blessing and a virtue. .
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The creators were not disinterested. The secret of their power is that it is self-sufficient, self-conditioned and self-produced. The root cause, source of energy, life force, primary stimulus. The Creator served no one and nothing. He lived for himself. And only by living for himself, he could achieve that which is the glory of mankind. That is the nature of accomplishment. .
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If you learn to control the soul of at least one single person, you can do this with all of humanity. .
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When people don't use their ability to reason independently, they don't use their reason. To stop using the mind is to stop life. .
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Peter, to do something for people, you have to be able to do it. And for this you need to love the work itself, and not the secondary consequences. Business, not people. Your own actions, not the object of your beneficence. I will be glad if people who need it will be better off living in the house that I have built. But this is not the main motive of my work. And not a reason. And not a reward. .
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The main problem of the modern world, said Eldsworth Toohey, is the delusion that freedom and coercion are incompatible. In order to solve those gigantic problems that are leading to the death of the modern world, it is necessary to bring clarity to our views. Essentially, freedom and coercion are one and the same. Here is a simple example. Traffic lights restrict your freedom - you can't cross the street where you want. But this restriction is your freedom not to get hit by a car. If you were given a job and forbidden to leave it, it would infringe on your right to choose the field of activity that you like. But at the same time, it would free us from the fear of unemployment. As soon as a new obligation is imposed on us, we automatically receive a new freedom. These two phenomena are inseparable. Only by accepting all kinds of restrictions, we gain true freedom. .
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I thought about people who say that happiness is impossible. And look how desperately they are looking for some joy in life, how they are fighting for it. Why is all living things doomed to suffering? By what right is a man required to live for any purpose other than his own joy? Everyone longs for it - with all his being. And no one finds. Strange why? People whine that they see no meaning in life. Some I especially despise. Those who are looking for some higher goal, or, in other words, the common good, and do not know what to live for. They constantly whine that they must find themselves. They only talk about it. It seems to be the disease of the century. Open any book. Tearful confessions everywhere. Confession became a worthy occupation. And in my opinion, this is the most shameful thing. .
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You can't say "yes" without saying "I". There is no approval without an approver. In this sense, everything that your love is directed towards is yours. .
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I agree, I'm being disgusting. I break all the laws of mercy. Being honest is an extremely cruel thing. .
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As a rule, when I look at the prototype of a work of art, I experience a fit of atheism. But this time I cannot say that the sculptor has surpassed the Creator. .
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They say the worst thing that can be done to a person is to kill his self-respect. But this is not true. Self-respect cannot be killed. It is much more terrible to kill claims to self-respect. .
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(part 2 of 2) But you never needed it. You wanted mirrors. People want to be surrounded only by mirrors. To reflect and reflect. You know, like a meaningless infinity that you enter in a narrow mirrored corridor. This happens in very vulgar hotels. Reflection reflections, echo echo. Without beginning and without end. Without source and purpose. I gave you what you wanted. I became like you, like your friends, what most of humanity tries so hard to be, I did not beat around the bush, contenting myself with book reviews to hide the emptiness of my own judgments, I said: I have no opinion. I didn't borrow blueprints to hide my creative impotence, I didn't create anything. I did not say that equality is a noble goal, and unification is the main task of mankind. I just agreed with everyone. You call it death.
Ray Bradbury Death quotes, death quotes, about death quotes, aphorisms about death, statements about death, statuses about death, photo statuses about death, notes about death, death statusesRay Bradbury is one of the most brilliant writers of the 20th century, a Pulitzer Prize winner and the author of the world-famous works Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, Dandelion Wine and many others. It was he who became the first author who was able to arouse readers' interest in the genres of science fiction, which in the 20th century were on the periphery of literary art.
Ray BradburyBradbury was born on August 22, 1920 in the small American town of Waukegan, in a very poor family. His parents did not even have the money to send their son to college - instead, he earned money selling newspapers, and spent all his free time in the library.
Glory and worldwide recognition went to Bradbury not easy: for many years he teetered on the brink of poverty, trying to earn money by writing stories. And only in 1953, when his novel “451 degrees Fahrenheit” was published, the world fame that he had been waiting for so long hit the writer. For the first time, the book was published on the pages of Playboy magazine, which had just appeared at that time, and immediately captivated readers. The dystopia about the vague and terrible future of mankind, where dreams die and all books are burned to the ground, was even filmed in 1966 by French director Francois Truffaut.
We recall his most striking statements and quotes from the books of Ray Bradbury
Open your eyes wider, live as greedily as if you were going to die in ten seconds. Try to see the world. It is more beautiful than any dream created in a factory and paid for with money. Do not ask for guarantees, do not seek peace - there is no such beast in the world.
All you have to do is sleep well, or cry for ten minutes, or eat a whole pint of chocolate ice cream, or even all of these together - you can’t imagine a better medicine.
There are worse crimes than burning books. For example - do not read them.
Life is already too serious to be taken seriously.
A true scientist is a romantic. Only romantics believe that anything is possible.
Looking for rabbits in hats is a disastrous business, just like looking for a modicum of common sense in some people's heads.
Love is when someone can return a person to himself.
Once, in his distant youth, Ray Bradbury burned all his unsuccessful, in his opinion, stories. A huge bonfire in the backyard: the spectacle was grandiose. Yes, two million words were easily burned - so he sadly said after. Perhaps easily, but not in vain, since in the future it was this incident that formed the basis of his debut novel Fahrenheit 451. And today it is not in vain that we remember this amazing writer, because we are talking exclusively about him - "Ray Bradbury: quotes from a great master."
Who is he?
It is difficult to find a person in this world who would not know who Ray Bradbury is, who would not have read any of his books. If you are still one of them, immediately go to the nearest bookstore and ask, or even demand, the books of this great American writer. It doesn't matter which ones, they are all amazing. However, it is always possible to highlight the brightest "top ten". So, if we talk about “Ray Bradbury: books, a list of the best”, then it is recommended, first of all, to read the already mentioned novel “451 degrees Fahrenheit”, and then “Dandelion Wine”, “The Martian Chronicles”, “Summer Morning, summer night”, “Death is a lonely affair”, “And thunder struck”, “Golden apples of the sun”, “Mechanisms of joy”, “Green shadows, White Whale”, “October country”.
About books
Writer Ray Bradbury, whose quotes, if you take and put in one container, and then mix thoroughly, you get several bright cocktails. They have one taste for all - the "watercolor" of the language and incredible depth. But there are differences, so to speak, raisins. For example, the first drink is full of thoughts about books and art in general, about their role in human life. For example, he says that "burning books is a terrible crime, but not reading them is much worse." Or here's another: "We are accustomed to especially carefully protect, store what we are afraid to forget, and books are one of the few receptacles for these values." And it would not be superfluous to mention his statement that one should not judge a book only by its cover. However, the same can be said not only about the book, but about everything in the world. What is hidden inside, what is hidden under the water, cannot be compared with the outside, with the tip of the iceberg.
About love
We continue to talk on the topic "Ray Bradbury: quotes from books." One of the main issues in the work of any writer or poet is love. Ray Bradbury is no exception. He thinks about her a lot. Sometimes it can easily break off the story, forget about the main characters, leaving them in a moment of acute passions, just to tell the reader about his thoughts, about love. For example, Ray Bradbury (citations follow) is sure that “it is only the spirit that determines true love. And the mind in this matter is just an annoying hindrance. If we obeyed him alone, then no one would ever have a love relationship or friendship. Everyone would simply remember past disappointments, fall into hopeless cynicism, and grow wings, but not for flight, but in order not to fall off a cliff. And he asks everyone not to stop being "surprised." It is an integral part of the formula of life. If a person "is not surprised, then he does not love, and if he does not love, then he does not live, and if he does not live, he will soon be in the grave." And here are the author's personal thoughts about love, words that do not belong to any of his characters: “Sixty years ago we got married with my wife Maggie. We had nothing but eight dollars in a bank account. Even the first two years they lived without a phone and rented a tiny apartment. And that's not to mention the car. But the most important thing that we had was love.
About the meaning of life
As same without him - without sense. It must be in everything, otherwise life becomes meaningless, aimless and empty. But is it really so? Ray Bradbury answers. Quotes from his beautiful works will help you understand him better.
And he says this about this: “To live a full life does not mean to ask every minute what its meaning is. It does not exist, or rather, life itself is the main meaning. Life for life." In general, in his opinion, "life is already a serious enough thing to think seriously about it." What then are we to do? There is a recipe, and it consists of several points. The first is Ray Bradbury himself. His books are second. And also “open your eyes wide, live greedily, as if death will knock on the door in ten seconds. Try your best to see the whole world - the most beautiful thing there is, and do not seek peace, do not ask for guarantees. Such animals simply do not exist in nature.
Time
It exists only on earth. And up there, no one had ever heard of him. What is it, time, age? And Ray Bradbury knows the answer to this question. His books are clear proof of this.
His most amazing quote is about the age of the body, which has nothing to do with the age of the soul: “When a person turns seventeen and he says that he knows everything, this is one thing. But if he is twenty-seven, and he, as before, is sure that he knows everything, then he is still seventeen. And the last on the topic “Ray Bradbury: quotes from a great master”: “It’s a strange thing this time ... If all of a sudden the cogs or wheels turned somehow wrong, then the result is obvious - human destinies are intertwined either too soon or too late.”
