Ray Bradbury Quotes About Martian Chronicles
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The rockets set the bony meadows afire, turned rock to lava, turned wood to charcoal, transmuted water to steam, made sand and silica into green glass which lay like shattered mirrors reflecting the invasion, all about. The rockets came like drums, beating in the night. The rockets came like locusts, swarming and settling in blooms of rosy smoke.
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Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other people's advice that they needed burning. Otherwise you'd have realized what I was going to do to you when we came down here a moment ago. Ignorance is fatal, Mr. Garrett.
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The Martians were there - in the canal - reflected in the water.... The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water.
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You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
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We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.
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It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.
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Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.
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Stuff your eyes with wonder.
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Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing.
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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
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There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves
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We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things. The only reason we didn't set up hot-dog stands in the midst of the Egyptian temple of Karnak is because it was out of the way and served no large commercial purpose.
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I'm not anyone, I'm just myself; whatever I am, I am something, and now I'm something you can't help.
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I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion now. It's learning how to breathe all over again. And how to lie in the sun getting a tan, letting the sun work into you. And how to hear music and how to read a book. What does your civilization offer?
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The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
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Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.
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I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion , now .
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See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream.
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We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will.
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Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
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Can't you recognize the human in the inhuman?
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Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.
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I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite. There!
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Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.
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