Ray Bradbury

The terrible tyranny of the majority. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#diversity #minorities #democracy

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#fear #life #art

It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#change

Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#civilization

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

— Ray Bradbury

#art

What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read? ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#library

You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#writing #art

There was her face, like a summer peach, beautiful and warm, and the light of the candles reflected in her dark eyes. [He] held his breath. The entire world waited and held its breath. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#women #beauty

Libraries raised me. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#me #raised

Everything that happens before Death is what counts. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#life #death