"We've got to reinvest in space travel. Â We should haveÂ never left the moon."

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Ray Bradbury

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“I thought I'd had another few decades before my noise complaint years.”

Source : Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.58, Portobello Books
“Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel. "You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know," Haymitch says.”
“I cannot draw a human figure if I don't know the order of his bones, muscles or tendons. Same is that I cannot draw a human face if I don't know what's going on his mind and heart. In order to paint life one must understand not only anatomy, but what people feel and think about the world they live in. The painter who knows his own craft and nothing else will turn out to be a very superficial artist.”
“Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision.”

Source : Edmund Blunden (1930). “Leigh Hunt: a biography”, Archon Books
“Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.”

Source : "Age of Reason". The New Yorker, (p. 103), October 22, 2007.
“The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.”

Source : Interview with Gerald Peary, www.geraldpeary.com. September 1985.
“I don't have any illusion that The Creeper is as popular or will ever be as popular as any of the classic movie monsters, but I think in the heart of every young horror fan is his desire to create his own creature.”
“Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them to be true. . . . Myth has two main functions. The first is to answer the sort of awkward questions that children ask, such as: 'Who made the world? How will it end? Who was the first man? Where do souls go after death?'. . . . The second function of myth is to justify an existing social system and account for traditional rites and customs.”

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