THE ILLUSTRATED MAN: STARTERS
a collection of quotes, phrases, and sayings from the 1951 Ray Bradbury novel, The Illustrated Man. change & alter as needed.
"Do you know where I can find a job?"
"You'll be sorry you asked me to stay. Everyone always is."
"You smoke a little more every morning, and drink a little more every afternoon, and need a little more sedative every night."
"Long before you knew what death was, you were wishing it on someone else. When you were two years old, you were shooting people with cap pistols."
"Nothing ever likes to die β even a room."
"There's a chance we'll be found."
"I know how you feel, [name]. I don't take it personally."
"I don't know why I said that. I guess I wanted to hurt you."
"There wasn't anything there for me, or you, or anybody like us. I've never been sorry I left."
"[Name], I can't be made to do nothing like that."
"It doesn't matter who I am. I'd be just a name to you, anyhow."
"We destroyed everything and ruined everything, like the fools that we were and the fools that we are."
"What happens next is up to all of us."
"Haven't you heard? It's happened."
"Oh, I want to be home. I want to be home."
"You can't trust anyone anymore."
"[Name], if you don't understand, there's no way of telling you."
"This is what I came looking for. I didn't know it, but this is it."
"You're crying like a baby. Stop it."
"Stay if you like. But I'm going on, with the others, as far as I can go."
"It's been a long time, a long, long time, since I relaxed."
"We've enough food for another two days if we're careful."
"I'm not crazy yet, but I'm the next thing to it. I don't want to go out that way."
"Promise me you won't be like me."
"Next time I come home, I'm home to stay."
"We have reached a new land, so we must have new eyes. We shall hear new sounds, and must needs have new ears."
"Love has to do with humor, doesn't it? For you cannot love someone unless you put up with him, can you? And you cannot put up with someone constantly unless you can laugh at him. Isn't that true?"
"I haven't feared death for a good many years, [name]."
"Can't you recognize the human in the inhuman?"
"May I come again, someday, that I may learn from you?"
"What would you do if you knew that this was the last night of the world?"
"It's not a matter of deserving. It's just that things didn't work out."
"I'll have nothing to do with you terrible people!"
"War begets war. Destruction begets destruction."
"Memories, as my father once said, are porcupines. To hell with them! Stay away from them! They make you unhappy. They ruin your work. They make you cry."
"You die each day, and each day is a box, you see, all numbered and neat. But never go back and lift the lids, because you've died a couple thousand times in your life, and that's a lot of corpses, each dead a different way, each with a worse expression. Each of those days is a different you, somebody you don't know or understand, or want to understand."
"We're all fools all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday, but not this morning. Then tomorrow, we find out that, yes, we were a fool today, too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect, and live accordingly."
"I'm getting worse, aren't I? I thought so. This morning, when I woke up, I thought, I'm getting worse."
"I've never enjoyed myself so much in my life."
"You've got the wrong person. My name is not [name]."
"The rabbits may hide in the forest, but a fox can always find them."
"Really, you've both been incredibly romantic, running away from your responsibilities."
"The car's in the repair shop. It'll be ready at four this afternoon. Then we'll get the hell out."
"Don't you realize what'll happen when they discover your talent? They'll fight over you. They'll kill each other, kill you, for the right to own you."
"Oh, but I don't belong to anybody. No, not even you."
"Your first night out in years, and you go home at ten o'clock."
"I recall that I was quite firm on the subject."
"You won't mind waiting a moment, will you? I have to make a phone call."
"In order to make a good fight, you got to have a new way of surprising people."
"Someone should go who could tell it well on returning. You have a way with words."
"I will buy your ticket today. You can leave next week."
"I can go, can't I? And you'll like me when I come back?"
"We will remember it for always, [name]. We will never forget."
"You're the best father in the world."
