Ray Bradbury - The Leviathan 2 (Joseph Mugnaini)

“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” - Ray Bradbury

The Bookworm, Carl Spitzweg, 1850.

The October Country - Book Cover

“I’ll hold on to the world tight some day. I’ve got one finger on it now; that’s a beginning.”

— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury (1929-2012) - It Came From Outer Space, 1970

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 [ID in ALT]

“Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I’m one of them.”

— Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

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

- Ray Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012)

Ray Bradbury - El hombre ilustrado

Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?" "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.

—Ray Bradbury

“How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?”

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Ray Bradbury, from Fahrenheit 451 (Ballantine Books 1953)