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Christina Wodtke @cwodtke
My vigil is done. I miss Ray Bradbury like I miss my grandfather. He lived a long good life but I still wish I’d hear from him now and again
6 Jun Christina Wodtke @cwodtke
If you don’t love what you do, you’d better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don’t have a reason for living. ― Ray Bradbury
6 Jun Christina Wodtke @cwodtke
“It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.” ― Ray Bradbury
6 Jun Christina Wodtke @cwodtke
“Why would you clone people when you can go to bed with them and make a baby? C’mon, it’s stupid.” ― Ray Bradbury
6 Jun Christina Wodtke @cwodtke
“The things that you do should be things that you love, and things that you love should be things that you do.” ― Ray Bradbury
6 Jun Christina Wodtke @cwodtke
Three rules to live by: Get your work done. If that doesn’t work shut up and drink your gin, and when all else fails, run like hell Bradbury
6 Jun Christina Wodtke @cwodtke
“You’re either in love with what you do, or you’re not in love.” ― Ray Bradbury
6 Jun Christina Wodtke @cwodtke
“If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.” ― Ray Bradbury
6 Jun Christina Wodtke @cwodtke
“I’m interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them.” ― Ray Bradbury
6 Jun Christina Wodtke @cwodtke
“I like to cry. After I cry hard it’s like it’s morning again and I’m starting the day over.” ― Ray Bradbury
6 Jun Christina Wodtke @cwodtke
“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
6 Jun Christina Wodtke @cwodtke
You know that time travel cliche where they step on a butterfly and the future is changed? Bradbury. A Sound of Thunder
6 Jun Christina Wodtke @cwodtke
“That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.” ― Ray Bradbury
6 Jun Christina Wodtke @cwodtke
@inkblurt He taught me never to be ashamed to be passionate.
6 Jun Christina Wodtke @cwodtke
” But no man’s a hero to himself. I’ve lived with me a lifetime” Ray Bradbury
6 Jun Christina Wodtke @cwodtke
@inkblurt For me less a hero than a guru. He taught me how to revel in tall grass, how to imagine witches in the woods, how to love my folks
6 Jun Christina Wodtke @cwodtke
“You’ll find out it’s little savors and little things that count more than big ones.” Ray Bradbury, who is quite right
6 Jun Christina Wodtke @cwodtke
@inkblurt I think I’m holding an twitter kaddish for him. He is as much of me as the scar on my back and the way I pronounce orange.
6 Jun Christina Wodtke @cwodtke
“No person ever died that had a family.” ― Ray Bradbury
6 Jun Christina Wodtke @cwodtke
Dude, there is a paperback for a penny! Do it! The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
6 Jun Christina Wodtke @cwodtke
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” ― Ray Bradbury
6 Jun Christina Wodtke @cwodtke
“What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?” Bradbury
6 Jun Christina Wodtke @cwodtke
“Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.” ― Ray Bradbury
6 Jun Christina Wodtke @cwodtke
To be honest, he was almost more a horror writer: Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
6 Jun Christina Wodtke @cwodtke
“Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.” Bradbury
6 Jun Christina Wodtke @cwodtke
“I’ll hold on to the world tight some day. I’ve got one finger on it now; that’s a beginning.” ― Ray Bradbury
6 Jun Christina Wodtke @cwodtke
Another fine choice: horror, magic, love. Always love. The October Country by Ray Bradbury
6 Jun Christina Wodtke @cwodtke
“The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas. ” ― Ray Bradbury
6 Jun Christina Wodtke @cwodtke
“Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.” ― Ray Bradbury
6 Jun Christina Wodtke @cwodtke
If you don’t like “sci-fi” read this one: Dandelion wine by Ray Bradbury http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0552082767?ie=UTF8&tag=eleganthack&linkCode=shr&camp=213733&creative=393177&creativeASIN=0552082767&qid=1339003050&ref_=sr_1_9&s=books&sr=1-9
6 Jun Christina Wodtke @cwodtke
“Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage. ” ― Ray Bradbury
6 Jun Christina Wodtke @cwodtke
Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. Bradbury
6 Jun Christina Wodtke @cwodtke
“So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.” ― Ray Bradbury
6 Jun Christina Wodtke @cwodtke
“I have two rules in life – to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.” ― Ray Bradbury
6 Jun Christina Wodtke @cwodtke
My stream is going to be like this most of the day. I miss him. Bradbury made my childhood possible to survive. Possible to enjoy, even.
6 Jun Christina Wodtke @cwodtke
“If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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6 Jun Christina Wodtke @cwodtke
“Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy.” Bradbury
6 Jun Christina Wodtke @cwodtke
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. Bradbury
6 Jun Christina Wodtke @cwodtke
“Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for.” Bradbury
6 Jun Christina Wodtke @cwodtke
” When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.” ” – Ray Bradbury
6 Jun Christina Wodtke @cwodtke
“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. ― Ray Bradbury