Ray Bradbury, The October Country Quotes
The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.
Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic.
How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike.
In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize.
Her eyes reversed into herself, to watch the secret heart of herself pounding itself into pieces against the side of her chest.
People die every day, psychologically speaking. Some part of them gets tired. And that small part tries to kill off the entire person.
Well, I've kept you waiting long enough, " he said, peering at me from that distance which drinking adds between people and which, at odd turns in the evening, seems closeness itself.
They came to study the dreadful vulgarity of this imaginary Mass Man they pretend to hate. But they're fascinated with the snake-pit.
