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Ray Bradbury

22 August 1920-5 June 2012

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Civilization is nowhere when we don't have an imagination to use facts or knowledge that we may collect.

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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.

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Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after one's characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.

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Poetry is good because it flexes muscles you don’t use often enough. it expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition.

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Poetry is compacted metaphor or simile. Like Japanese paper flowers, they may expand outward into gigantic shapes.

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Poetry is often difficult to understand. You say you don’t understand Dylan Thomas? Yes, but your ganglion does, and your secret wits, and all your unborn children. Read him, as you can read a horse with your eyes, set free and charging over an endless green meadow on a windy day.

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Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

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Science fiction is distinguished from fantasy in that fantasy is things that can’t happen, and science fiction is about things that can.

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Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together.

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Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself.

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Television is an insidious medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that siren which calls and sings and promises so much and gives, after all, so little.