# Quote — Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

> I’m not afraid. When you live as long as I’ve lived, you lose that, too. I never liked lobster in my life, and mainly because I’d never tried it. On my eightieth birthday I tried it. I can’t say I’m greatly excited over lobster still, but I have no doubt as to its taste now, and I don’t fear it. I dare say death will be a lobster, too, and I can come to terms with it.

- Author: [Ray Bradbury](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury.md)
- Book: [Dandelion Wine](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/dandelion-wine.md)
- Page: 150
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/dandelion-wine/im-not-afraid

## More from this book

> “No,” said the old man, deep under. “I don’t remember anyone winning anywhere any time. War’s never a winning thing, Charlie. You just lose all the time, and the one who loses last asks for terms. All I remember is a lot of losing and sadness and nothing good but the end of it. The end of it, Charles, that was a winning all to itself, having nothing to do with guns.”

p. 85 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/dandelion-wine/no-said-the.md)

> Kindness and intelligence are the preoccupations of age. Being cruel and thoughtless is far more fascinating when you’re twenty.

p. 147 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/dandelion-wine/kindness-and-intelligence.md)

> Any town, New York, Chicago, with its people, becomes improbable with distance. Just as I am improbable here, in Illinois, in a small town by a quiet lake. All of us improbable to one another because we are not present to one another.

p. 134 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/dandelion-wine/any-town-new.md)