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“See what is invisible and you will see what to write”
― Ronald Everett Capps

“People who have the ability to hear, I mean with their inner being, souls, wisdom, are the only ones who can grasp the...things that remain out of sight.”
― Ronald Everett Capps, Off Magazine Street

“...like two children who had, for the first time, discovered someone who shared their thoughts...”
― Ronald Everett Capps, Off Magazine Street

“Love means never having to say you're sorry.”
― Erich Segal, Love Story

“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”
― Erich Segal

“What the hell makes you so smart?" I asked. "I wouldn't go for coffee with you, " she answered. "Listen -- I wouldn't ask you." "That, "she replied "is what makes you stupid.”
― Erich Segal, Love Story

“There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling.”
― Erich Segal, Love Story

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

“If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.”
― Ray Bradbury

“With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky

“Suddenly the day was gone,
night came out from under each tree and spread.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree

“In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing

“And besides, I like to cry. After I cry hard it's like it's morning again and I'm starting the day over.”
― Ray Bradbury

“We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

“I'm interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Can't you recognize the human in the inhuman?”
― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

“You're either in love with what you do, or you're not in love.”
― Ray Bradbury

“I have three rules to live by: Get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut up and drink your gin, and when all else fails, run like hell.”
― Ray Bradbury, Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews

“There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Why would you clone people when you can go to bed with them and make a baby? C'mon, it's stupid.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Someone who loved night arrivals and dark departures, for the hell, the fun, the death of it?”
― Ray Bradbury, Death is a Lonely Business

“I don't know anything anymore”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“I'm not anyone, I'm just myself; whatever I am, I am something, and now I'm something you can't help.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

“Sunsets are loved because they vanish.

Flowers are loved because they go.

The dogs of the field and the cats of the kitchen are loved because soon they must depart.

These are not the sole reasons, but at the heart of morning welcomes and afternoon laughters is the promise of farewell. In the gray muzzle of an old dog we see goodbye. In the tired face of an old friend we read long journeys beyond returns.”
― Ray Bradbury, From the Dust Returned

“How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike.”
― Ray Bradbury, The October Country

“It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.”
― Ray Bradbury

“A day without writing was a little death.”
― Ray Bradbury, Death is a Lonely Business