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newyorker: Ray Bradbury has just passed away at age ninety-one. In our most recent issue, Bradbury wrote about what inspired him to write science fiction, and we’ve unlocked the piece: http://nyr.kr/JvTNFV
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notational: Paraphrasing a plea from Kevin Slavin at Eyeo. ” Can we design systems that instead of harnessing luck UNLEASH it?” Excellent talk.
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Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people…
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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. Ray Bradbury (via kateoplis)
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scottlava: Goodbye, Ray Bradbury! My favorite author of all time.
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My inspiration wasn’t the bohemian culture I saw all around me, but a quieter, more bookish one that started when I discovered Ray Bradbury’s The Illustrated Man. I found the book on top of one of the garbage cans behind our building. I dumped our trash and began reading on my way back up the…
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nutriblog: Guess who got quoted for quoting Ray Bradbury to The Atlantic on Twitter??? This girl. That’s who. Social media is pretty cool. See the article here.
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Ray Bradbury: August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012
lareviewofbooks: Ray Bradbury has died at the age of 91. Read Lisa Jane Persky on Bradbury’s The Illustrated Man, at the Los Angeles Review of Books. (Image of a young Ray Bradbury with George Burns.)
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If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my morning voices leaping around…
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kchayka: cablegram: Tauba Auerbach, Wood, 2011 Digital offset printing, Mohawk superfine paper, 55 pages, hand painted edges, 17 x 9.5 x 2, Binding construction by Daniel Kelm and Leah H. Purcell. Taubaaa