“Si on ne peut avoir la réalité, autant se réfugier dans le rêve.”
Ray Bradbury livre Chroniques martiennes
The Martian Chronicles
Raymond Douglas Bradbury dit Ray Bradbury, né le 22 août 1920 à Waukegan dans l’Illinois et mort le 5 juin 2012 à Los Angeles en Californie, est un écrivain américain, référence du genre de l’anticipation. Il est particulièrement connu pour ses Chroniques martiennes, écrites en 1950, L’Homme illustré, recueil de nouvelles publié en 1951, et surtout Fahrenheit 451, roman dystopique publié en 1953. Wikipedia

“Si on ne peut avoir la réalité, autant se réfugier dans le rêve.”
Ray Bradbury livre Chroniques martiennes
The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury livre Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury livre Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury livre Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury livre Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury livre Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury livre Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury livre Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury livre Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury livre Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury livre Zen in the Art of Writing
Source: Zen in the Art of Writing
“I’m really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don’t remember!”
Ray Bradbury livre Dandelion Wine
Source: Dandelion Wine
“I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.”
Ray Bradbury livre Fahrenheit 451
Source: Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury livre Fahrenheit 451
Source: Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury livre Something Wicked This Way Comes
Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes
“Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.”
Ray Bradbury livre The October Country
Source: The October Country
Ray Bradbury livre Chroniques martiennes
Source: The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury livre Fahrenheit 451
Source: Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury livre Fahrenheit 451
Source: Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury livre Fahrenheit 451
Source: Fahrenheit 451 (1953), Coda (1979)
Contexte: For, let's face it, digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones. Laurence Sterne said it once: Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Restore them to the writer - he steps forth like a bridegroom, bids them all-hail, brings in variety and forbids the appetite to fail.
Ray Bradbury livre Dandelion Wine
Source: Dandelion Wine (1957), p. 142
Contexte: “I don’t know,” he admitted.
“Well.” She started pouring tea. “To start things off, what do you think of the world?”
“I don’t know anything.”
“The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you’re seventeen you know everything. When you’re twenty-seven if you still know everything you’re still seventeen.”
“You seem to have learned quite a lot over the years.”
“It is the privilege of old people to seem to know everything. But it’s an act and a mask, like every other act and mask. Between ourselves, we old ones wink at each other and smile, saying, How do you like my mask, my act, my certainty? Isn’t life a play? Don’t I play it well?”
They both laughed quietly.
Ray Bradbury livre Fahrenheit 451
Source: Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury livre Fahrenheit 451
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth”
Ray Bradbury livre Zen in the Art of Writing
Source: Zen in the Art of Writing
“Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.”
Ray Bradbury livre Zen in the Art of Writing
Source: Zen in the Art of Writing
Ray Bradbury livre Something Wicked This Way Comes
Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes
“The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.”
Ray Bradbury livre Fahrenheit 451
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.”
Ray Bradbury livre The Illustrated Man
Source: The Illustrated Man
“Can't you recognize the human in the inhuman?”
Ray Bradbury livre Chroniques martiennes
Source: The Martian Chronicles
“Thinking little at all about nothing in particular.”
Ray Bradbury livre Fahrenheit 451
Source: Fahrenheit 451