{"author":"Ray Bradbury","author_id":"Ray+Bradbury","total_quotes":420,"quotes":[{"text":"Yell. Jump. Play. Out-run those sons-of-bitches. They'll never live the way you live. Go do it.","author":"Ray Bradbury","tags":["art","life","writing"],"id":759,"author_id":"Ray+Bradbury"},{"text":"We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we've gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever.","author":"Ray Bradbury","tags":["universe","living","you "],"id":3068,"author_id":"Ray+Bradbury"},{"text":"It was a pleasure to burn.It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history. With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black. He strode in a swarm of fireflies. He wanted above all, like the old joke, to shove a marshmallow on a stick in the furnace, while the flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch and lawn of the house. While the books went up in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning.","author":"Ray Bradbury","tags":["burning","censorship","fire"],"id":4125,"author_id":"Ray+Bradbury"},{"text":"His library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.","author":"Ray Bradbury","tags":["books","library","words"],"id":4718,"author_id":"Ray+Bradbury"},{"text":"If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.","author":"Ray Bradbury","tags":["people","grow","want "],"id":5019,"author_id":"Ray+Bradbury"},{"text":"Forgive, I hope you won't be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind your desk, so near but far away, and, how can I say this, I used to think that you were Mrs. God, and that the library was a whole world, and that no matter what part of the world or what people or thing I wanted to see and read, you'd find and give it to me.","author":"Ray Bradbury","tags":["books","learning","librarians","libraries"],"id":5685,"author_id":"Ray+Bradbury"},{"text":"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.","author":"Ray Bradbury","tags":["lies","lying","truth","willful-ignorance"],"id":6567,"author_id":"Ray+Bradbury"},{"text":"You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.","author":"Ray Bradbury","tags":["colleges","libraries"],"id":6790,"author_id":"Ray+Bradbury"},{"text":"Good to evil seems evil a.","author":"Ray Bradbury","tags":["good-and-evil","good-vs-evil"],"id":7013,"author_id":"Ray+Bradbury"},{"text":"- Padre Peregrine, non ti comporterai mai con un po' di serietà?- No, finché il nostro Signore benedetto non farà altrettanto. Ti prego, non fare quella faccia così terribilmente scandalizzata! Il Signore non è mai troppo serio. In effetti, è difficile dire che cos'altro sia, oltre a infinito amore. E l’amore più puro è anche letizia, non ti sembra? Non puoi amare nessuno, senza andare d’accordo con lui, e non puoi andare d’accordo con chiunque in qualunque momento, a meno di non ridere di lui bonariamente. E’ vero o no? Senza dubbio noi somigliamo a buffi animaletti che si rivoltano nella coppa della marmellata, e Dio deve amarci tanto più in quanto risvegliamo il Suo senso umoristico.","author":"Ray Bradbury","tags":["faith","humor"],"id":8286,"author_id":"Ray+Bradbury"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":420,"pages":42,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}