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  Аноним9 июля 2014 г.

  Думал ли я, что такое возможно - вернуться в Край счастливого детства? Спасибо, Рэй Брэдбери!

  Несколько цитат себе на память....

  
  Несколько цитат себе на память:
  

  
  You do things and don’t watch. Then all of a sudden you look and see what you’re doing and it’s the first time, really. I’m going to divide the summer up in two parts. First part of this tablet is titled: RITES AND CEREMONIES. The first root beer pop of the year. The first time running barefoot in the grass of the year. First time almost drowning in the lake of the year. First watermelon. First mosquito. First harvest of dandelions. Those are the things we do over and over and over and never think. Now here in back, like I said, is DISCOVERIES AND REVELATIONS or maybe ILLUMINATIONS, that’s a swell word, or INTUITIONS, okay? In other words you do an old familiar thing, like bottling dandelion wine, and you put that under RITES AND CEREMONIES. And then you think about it, and what you think, crazy or not, you put under DISCOVERIES AND REVELATIONS.
  <...>
  “It’s not you I worry about,” said Douglas. “It’s the way God runs the world.”
  Tom thought about this for a moment.
  “He’s all right, Doug,” said Tom. “He tries.”
  <...>
  When you’re seventeen you know everything. When you’re twenty-seven if you still know everything you’re still seventeen.
  <...>
  Kindness and intelligence are the preoccupations of age. Being cruel and thoughtless is far more fascinating when you’re twenty.
  <...>
  “What ever happened to happy endings?”
  “They got them on shows at Saturday matinees.”
  “Sure, but what about life?”
  “All I know is I feel good going to bed nights, Doug. That’s a happy ending once a day. Next morning I’m up and maybe things go bad. But all I got to do is remember that I’m going to bed that night and just lying there a while makes everything okay.”
  <...>
  “Now, remember,” said Mr. Jonas, “you can have what you want if you really want it. The test is, ask yourself, Do I want it with all my heart? Could I live through the day without it? If you figure to be dead by sundown, grab the darned thing and run."
  <...>
  Is this where the world began? For surely it had begun in no other than a place like this. The kitchen, without doubt, was the center of creation, all things revolved about it.
  <...>
  “Oh, it’s beautiful food all right. But what is this thing we’re eating?” <...> “I call this our Thursday Special. We have it regularly.”
  <...>
  And then, quite suddenly, summer was over.

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