#bradbury

First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys. Not that all months aren't rare. But one strange year, halloween came early....don't you ditch me jim nightshade...don't talk death. Someone might hear... ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#dark #halloween #jim #will #death

Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#ray-bradbury #trash #treasure #writing #art

Ignorance is fatal. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#death #fatal #ignorance #knowledge #ray

Will we ever stop being afraid of nights and death? When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#death #halloween #ray-bradbury #the-halloween-tree #death

Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#life #perfect #perfection #something-wicked-this-way-comes #life

Men are men, unfortunately, no matter what their shape, and inclined to sin. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#ray-bradbury #sin #truth #men

and sleeping put an end to summer, 1928, ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#dreams #promise #young #dreams

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

Shut up, Ray. ↗

— Henry Kuttner

#writing-advice #writing-advice

The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for no good reason, science fiction. A better generic term would be 'future fairy tales'. And even this is objectionable, since many science fiction stories take place in the present or the past, far and near. ↗

— Philip José Farmer

#genre #kurt-vonnegut #parable #ray-bradbury #science-fiction