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  1. Ray Bradbury _ Death Is a Lonely Business

    Everyone in the world needs two, three jobs," I said, without hesitation. "One job isn't enough, just as one life isn't enough. I want to have a dozen of both." "Bull's-eye. Doctors should dig ditches. Ditchdiggers ought to run kindergartens one day a week. Philosophers should wash dishes in a greasy spoon two nights out of ten. Mathematicians should blow whistles at high school gyms. Poets should drive trucks for a change of menu and police detectives-" "Should own and operate the Garden of Eden," I said, quietly.
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  2. Ray Bradbury _ Death Is a Lonely Business

    I took the candy wrappers shamefacedly, and felt the extra ten pounds sag around my middle as I held these flags of defeat. Я стыдливо взял конфетные обертки - эти свидетельства моего поражения, - чувствуя, как еще десять лишних фунтов нарастают у меня на боках.
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  3. Ray Bradbury _ Death Is a Lonely Business

    We all just gave up on that and stayed friends. Мы просто перестали об этом говорить и остались друзьями.
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  4. Ray Bradbury _ Death Is a Lonely Business

    Will power is the answer. Will power. No white bread, no Nestle's Crunch bars... I flinched and felt the last of the bars melting in my pockets. На все вопросы ответ один - сила воли! Исключительно сила воли. Никаких булок, никаких шоколадных плиток… Я моргнул и почувствовал, как последняя из шоколадок тает у меня в кармане.
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  5. Ray Bradbury _ Death Is a Lonely Business

    Whenever I am very happy or very sad or very embarrassed, I cram my mouth with sweets and litter the breezeway with discards. Когда я очень счастлив, или очень огорчен, или смущен, я всегда набиваю рот сладостями и бросаю обертки где попало.
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  6. Ray Bradbury _ Death Is a Lonely Business

    Perhaps I expected to look in and find a giant canary, stretched out on a carpet of dust, songless, capable of only heart murmurs for talk.
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  7. Ray Bradbury _ Death Is a Lonely Business

    Someone who loved night arrivals and dark departures, for the hell, the fun, the death of it?
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  8. Ray Bradbury _ Death Is a Lonely Business

    With nothing trembles. To be afraid of nothing for no reason. And having to live with that nothing until dawn.
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  9. Ray Bradbury _ Death Is a Lonely Business

    What should I do?""Throw up in your typewriter every morning.""Yeah.""Clean up every noon.
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  10. Ray Bradbury _ Death Is a Lonely Business

    A day without writing was a little death.
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  11. Ray Bradbury _ Death Is a Lonely Business

    Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.
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