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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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What it means
Our interpretation.
Wonder, for Bradbury, is not a gift for the young but a habit of paying attention, and the sentence makes it a side effect of loving being alive rather than of being clever. It is the creed behind his stories about Mars, carnivals and libraries. Readers share it as a reminder, a tattoo and a graduation-card line when they want a short defence of curiosity at any age.
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The line is attributed to Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), recorded on the site as coming from an online chat on bn.com on 22 September 1997. We found no transcript of that chat, and Wikiquote's Bradbury page does not list the sentence, though Reactor magazine repeats it without a source. It fits the writer: the author of Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and The Martian Chronicles spent half a century telling audiences to keep their childhood curiosity. Another of his well-known lines, 'Stuff your eyes with wonder', points the same way.
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- Ray Bradbury, WikipedialeadReference checked
- Ray Bradbury, WikiquoteFahrenheit 451 quotesReference checked
- Reactor (Tor.com) article quoting Bradburyquotation of the sentenceReference checked
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