Ray Bradbury quote: [He] was always here to offer cups of good clear Walden Pond, or shout down the deep well of Shakespeare ...

[He] was always here to offer cups of good clear Walden Pond, or shout down the deep well of Shakespeare and listen, with satisfaction, for echoes. Here the lion and the hartebeest lay together, here the jackass became a unicorn.

~ Ray Bradbury ~

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