Ray Bradbury

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

— Ray Bradbury

#running

It was a pleasure to burn. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#opening-lines #pleasure

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

#lying #truth #willful-ignorance #ignorance

First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#inspirational

Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#bradbury #summer #flowers

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

— Ray Bradbury

#rebellion #rebellion

The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#religion

Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#love

Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#travel

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#libraries #past #without