# Quote — Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

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

- Author: [Ray Bradbury](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury.md)
- Book: [Dandelion Wine](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/dandelion-wine.md)
- Page: 147
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/dandelion-wine/kindness-and-intelligence

## 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)

> 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)

> Grandma, he had often wanted to say, Is this where the world began? For surely it had begun in no other than a place like this. The kitchen, without doubt, was the center of creation, all things revolved about it; it was the pediment that sustained the temple.

p. 223 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/dandelion-wine/grandma-he-had.md)