“You must never receive a gift, ever, without returning the gift twice over.”

— Ray Bradbury, Now and Forever (2007), Somewhere a Band Is Playing, Chapter 24 (p. 87)

About Ray Bradbury

1920 – 2012

American author of "Fahrenheit 451" and "The Martian Chronicles".

“While our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.”

“Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.”

“Disbelief is catching. It rubs off on people.”

“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”

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“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

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“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.”

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“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”