My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almo…

Ray Bradbury
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My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book. ✨ Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews, p.97, Melville House
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My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book. ✨ Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews, p.97, Melville House

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