There were differences between memories and dreams. He had only dreams of things he had wanted to do, while Lespere had memories of things done and accomplished. And this knowledge began to pull Hollis apart, with a slow, quivering precision.

~ Ray Bradbury

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Oh, death in space was most humorous.

~ Ray Bradbury

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And he listened to me. That was the thing he did, as if he was trying to fill himself up with all the sound he could hear.

~ Ray Bradbury

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The rain continued. It was a hard rain, a perpetual rain, a sweating and steaming rain; it was a mizzle, a downpour, a fountain, a whipping at the eyes, an undertow at the ankles; it was a rain to drown all rains and the memory of rains.

~ Ray Bradbury

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