"The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little."

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Source : "The Murderer". Short story by Ray Bradbury, 1953.

Ray Bradbury

#Night Quotes #People Quotes #Political Quotes

“Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.”
“I did not know much history when I became a bombardier in the U.S. Air Force in World War II. Only after the War did I see that we, like the Nazis, had committed atrocities... Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden, my own bombing missions. And when I studied history after the War, I learned from reading on my own, not from my university classes, about the history of U.S. expansion and imperialism.”
“I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.”
“In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.”
“Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent thinking clearly is never time wasted.”

Source : Max Brooks (2003). “The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead”, p.87, Broadway Books
“My first inclination is to be a bit skeptical about the claims that human-produced carbon dioxide is the direct contributor to global warming.”
“What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.”

Source : Scott Westerfeld (2014). “Afterworlds”, p.266, Simon and Schuster
“One can't help but be a bit melancholy when you see how the world has changed, and I don't mean that nostalgically.”

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