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  1. Ray Bradbury _ Bradbury Stories: 100 of His

    You want to cry some more, go on ahead. I did the same last night." "You, sir?" "God's truth. Thinking of everything ahead. Both sides figuring the other side will just give up, and soon, and the war done in weeks, and us all home. Well, that's not how it's going to be. And maybe that's why I cried.
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  2. Ray Bradbury _ Bradbury Stories: 100 of His

    It's the Lord's space and the Lord's worlds in space, Father. We must not try to take our cathedrals with us, when all we need is an overnight case.
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  3. Ray Bradbury _ Bradbury Stories: 100 of His

    Strange. Half my years afraid of life. The other half, afraid of death. Always some kind of afraid.
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  4. Ray Bradbury _ Bradbury Stories: 100 of His

    I remember once, when I lived in the Capital for a month and bought the paper fresh each day, I went wild with love, anger, irritation, frustration; all of the passions boiled in me. I was young. I exploded at everything I saw. But then I saw what I was doing: I was believing what I read. Have you noticed? You believe a paper printed on the very day you buy it? This has happened but only an hour ago, you think! It must be true.' He shook his head. 'So I learned to stand back away and let the paper age and mellow. Back here, in Colonia, I saw the headlines diminish to nothing. The week-old paper-why, you can spit on it if you wish. It is like a woman you once loved, but you now see, a few days later, she is not quite what you thought. She has rather a plain face. She is no deeper than a cup of water.
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  5. Ray Bradbury _ Bradbury Stories: 100 of His

    Jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down. Over
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  6. Ray Bradbury _ Bradbury Stories: 100 of His

    You're very tired, he said. You've traveled a long way and you belong to a tired people who've been without faith a long time, and you want to believe so much now that you're interfering with yourself. You'll only make it harder if you kill. You'll never find him that way.
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  7. Ray Bradbury _ Bradbury Stories: 100 of His

    Leave these people alone. They've got something good and decent, and you come and foul up the nest and sneer at it. Well, I've talked to them too. I've gone through the city and seen their faces, and they've got something you'll never have -- a little simple faith, and they'll move mountains with it. You, you're boiled because someone stole your act, got here ahead and made you unimportant.
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  8. Ray Bradbury _ Bradbury Stories: 100 of His

    They quit trying too hard to destroy everything, to humble everything. They blended religion and art and science because, at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle. They never let science crush the aesthetic and the beautiful.
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  9. Ray Bradbury _ Bradbury Stories: 100 of His

    There's enough. It comes in the window and blows the curtains a little bit. Just enough to tell me." "Look, why don't you come and spend the night here?" said Herb Thompson looking around the lighted hall. "Oh, no. It's too late for that. It might catch me on the way over. It's a damned long distance. I wouldn't dare, but thanks, anyway. It's thirty miles, but thanks." "Take a sleeping-tablet." "I've been standing in the door for the past hour, Herb. I can see it building up in the west. There are some clouds there and I saw one of them kind of rip apart. There's a wind coming, all right." "Well, you just take a nice sleeping-tablet. And call me anytime you want to call. Later this evening if you want." "Any time?" said the voice on the phone. "Sure." "I'll do that, but I wish you could come out. Yet I wouldn't want you hurt. You're my best friend and I wouldn't want that. Maybe it's best I face this thing alone. I'm sorry I bother you."
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  10. Ray Bradbury _ Bradbury Stories: 100 of His

    This will be the one trip of your life. Keep your eyes wide.
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  11. Ray Bradbury _ Bradbury Stories: 100 of His

    How strange the popsicle, the vanilla night, the night of close-packed ice cream, of mosquito-lotioned wrists, the night of running children suddenly veered from their games and put away behind glass, behind wood, the popsicles in melting puddles of lime and strawberry where they fell when the children were scooped indoors.
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  12. Ray Bradbury _ Bradbury Stories: 100 of His

    When you strip all the clothes away and the doodads, you have two human beings who were either happy or unhappy together, and we have no complaints.
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