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„Gehen Sie zum Rand der Klippe und springen Sie hinab. Bauen Sie Ihre Flügel auf dem Weg nach unten.“

— Ray Bradbury

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„Lebe so, als würdest du in zehn Sekunden tot umfallen.“

— Ray Bradbury

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„Sie müssen keine Bücher verbrennen, um eine Kultur zu zerstören. Lass die Leute einfach aufhören, diese zu lesen.“

— Ray Bradbury

„Ohne die Bibliothek gibt es keine Zivilisation.“

— Ray Bradbury

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„Bleibe betrunken beim Schreiben, damit die Realität dich nicht vernichten kann.“

— Ray Bradbury

„Es gibt schlimmere Verbrechen als Bücher zu verbrennen. Eines von ihnen ist es, sie nicht zu lesen“

— Ray Bradbury

„Das Problem in unserem Land ist nicht, dass Bücher verboten werden, sondern dass die Leute nicht mehr lesen.“

— Ray Bradbury

„Bücher sind Ideen aus Fleisch und Blut und schreien lautlos, wenn sie an die Fackel gelegt werden.“

— Ray Bradbury

„Spring - und lass dir auf dem Weg nach unten Flügel wachsen“

— Ray Bradbury

„Ich neige dazu zu glauben, dass Sie den Psychiater brauchen.“

— Ray Bradbury

„Niemand ist jemals gestorben, der eine Familie hatte.“

— Ray Bradbury

„Es war eine kleine Stadt an einem kleinen Fluß und einem kleinen See in einem kleinen Teil eines Staates im mittleren Westen.“

— Ray Bradbury, buch The Halloween Tree

The Halloween Tree

„Ich glaube nicht an den anthropomorphen Gott.“

— Ray Bradbury

„Man kann die Leute nicht zum Zuhören bringen.“

— Ray Bradbury

„Sag mir nicht, wie ich meinen Roman schreiben soll. Sag mir nicht, dass du ein besseres Ende dafür hast. Ich habe keine Zeit dafür.“

— Ray Bradbury

„Drei Dinge sind in Ihrem Kopf: Erstens alles, was Sie vom Tag Ihrer Geburt bis jetzt erlebt haben.“

— Ray Bradbury

„Nachdem ich Sie gründlich verwirrt habe, lassen Sie mich innehalten, um Ihren eigenen bestürzten Schrei zu hören.“

— Ray Bradbury

„Die Retter Gottes feiern das Leben in der Welt.“

— Ray Bradbury

„Bibliotheken haben mich großgezogen.“

— Ray Bradbury

“Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.”

— Ray Bradbury, buch Fahrenheit 451

Brown Daily Herald (24 March 1995)
Variante: Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.
Quelle: Fahrenheit 451

“Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.”

— Ray Bradbury, buch Fahrenheit 451

Quelle: Fahrenheit 451

“Without the library, you have no civilization.”

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Ray Bradbury, buch Ray Bradbury

As quoted in "Bradbury Still Believes in Heat of ‘Fahrenheit 451’" http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930312&slug=1689996, interview by Misha Berson, in ', credited to "Ray Bradbury, quoted by Misha Berson in Seattle Times", in "Quotable Quotes", The Reader's Digest, Vol. 144, No. 861, January 1994, p. 25 http://books.google.com/books?output=html&id=ZqqUAAAAIAAJ&q=%22people+to+stop+reading%22#search_anchor), or an indirect reference to the re-quoting in Reader's Digest (such as: The Times Book of Quotations (Philip Howard, ed.), 2000, Times Books and HarperCollins, p. 93
Variant: We're not teaching kids to read and write and think. … There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.
As quoted in "At 80, Ray Bradbury Still Fighting the Future He Foresaw" http://www.raybradbury.com/articles_peoria.html, interview by Roger Moore, in The Peoria Journal Star (August 2000)
Kontext: The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us– it's all junk, all trash, tidbits of news. The average TV ad has 120 images a minute. Everything just falls off your mind. … You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

“If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you, and you'll never learn.”

— Ray Bradbury, buch Fahrenheit 451

Quelle: Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

“We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.”

— Ray Bradbury

“Three things are in your head: First, everything you have experienced from the day of your birth until right now.”

— Ray Bradbury

The Paris Review interview (2010)
Kontext: Three things are in your head: First, everything you have experienced from the day of your birth until right now. Every single second, every single hour, every single day. Then, how you reacted to those events in the minute of their happening, whether they were disastrous or joyful. Those are two things you have in your mind to give you material. Then, separate from the living experiences are all the art experiences you’ve had, the things you’ve learned from other writers, artists, poets, film directors, and composers. So all of this is in your mind as a fabulous mulch and you have to bring it out. How do you do that? I did it by making lists of nouns and then asking, What does each noun mean? You can go and make up your own list right now and it would be different than mine. The night. The crickets. The train whistle. The basem*nt. The attic. The tennis shoes. The fireworks. All these things are very personal. Then, when you get the list down, you begin to word-associate around it. You ask, Why did I put this word down? What does it mean to me? Why did I put this noun down and not some other word? Do this and you’re on your way to being a good writer. You can’t write for other people. You can’t write for the left or the right, this religion or that religion, or this belief or that belief. You have to write the way you see things.

“So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.”

— Ray Bradbury

“Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That's our official slogan.”

— Ray Bradbury, buch Fahrenheit 451

Quelle: Fahrenheit 451

“Next year’s going to be even bigger, days will be brighter, nights longer and darker, more people dying, more babies born, and me in the middle of it all.”

— Ray Bradbury, buch Dandelion Wine

Quelle: Dandelion Wine (1957), pp. 235-236

“Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.”

— Ray Bradbury

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

— Ray Bradbury, buch Zen in the Art of Writing

Quelle: Zen in the Art of Writing

“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”

— Ray Bradbury, buch Zen in the Art of Writing

Quelle: Zen in the Art of Writing

“Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?""Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.”

— Ray Bradbury, buch Fahrenheit 451

Quelle: Fahrenheit 451

“We never sit anything out. We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”

— Ray Bradbury, buch Zen in the Art of Writing

Variante: We never sit anything out. We are cups, quietly and constantly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
Quelle: Zen in the Art of Writing (1990) <!-- page 120 of the mass market paperback edition -->
Kontext: From now on I hope always to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out. We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

“Stuff your eyes with wonder... live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”

— Ray Bradbury, buch Fahrenheit 451

Quelle: Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”

— Ray Bradbury, buch Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 (1953), Coda (1979)
Kontext: There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventh-day Adventist, Women's Lib/Republican, Mattachine/FourSquareGospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme.

“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”

— Ray Bradbury, buch Fahrenheit 451

Quelle: Fahrenheit 451

“There must be something in books, something 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, buch Fahrenheit 451

Quelle: Fahrenheit 451

“Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.”

— Ray Bradbury

“With schools 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, buch Fahrenheit 451

Quelle: Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

“I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.”

— Ray Bradbury, buch Fahrenheit 451

Quelle: Fahrenheit 451

“Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things.”

— Ray Bradbury

“Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”

— Ray Bradbury, buch Fahrenheit 451

Quelle: Fahrenheit 451

“The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.”

— Ray Bradbury, buch Fahrenheit 451

Quelle: Fahrenheit 451

“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”

— Ray Bradbury, buch Fahrenheit 451

19 September 1777
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791)
Quelle: Fahrenheit 451

“The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”

— Ray Bradbury, buch Fahrenheit 451

Quelle: Fahrenheit 451

“But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.”

— Ray Bradbury, buch Fahrenheit 451

Quelle: Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

“Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.”

— Ray Bradbury

“Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.”

— Ray Bradbury, buch The Golden Apples of the Sun

The Meadow (1947), originally a radio play for the World Security Workshop; later revised into a short story for this anthology.
The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)