"And the odd think in Dad's voice..." - Quote by Ray Bradbury
And the odd think in Dad's voice was the sound truth makes being said.
More by Ray Bradbury
“Night had come on like the closing of a great but gentle eye.”
“I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it's immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it.”
“You learn to live with your crazy enthusiasms which nobody else shares, and then you find a few other nuts like yourself, and they're your friends for a lifetime. That's what friends are, the people who share your crazy outlook and protect you from the world, because nobody else is going to give a damn what you're doing, so you need a few other people like yourself.”
More on Truth
“Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.”
“A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.”
“... I feel certain that his tale is true. Feeling that certainty, I befriend him. As long as that certainty shall last, I will befriend him. And if any consideration could shake me in this resolve, I should be so ashamed of myself for my meanness, that no man's good opinion - no, nor no woman's - so gained, could compensate me for the loss of my own.”
More on Honesty
“It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.”
“We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.”
“Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.”