# The October Country

- Author: [Ray Bradbury](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury.md)
- Quotes: 8
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/the-october-country

## Quotes

> He stood very straight and thought of nothing, or at least thought of thinking nothing.

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> Anna said, “Must they have a reason?”
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> “No, not if they’re insane, no,” said Juliet. “In that case no reasons are necessary.”

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> All the sadder that Stone, on the brink of his greatest work, turned one day and went off to live in a town we shall call Obscurity by the sea best named The Past.

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> “It will only take a minute,” said Uncle Einar’s sweet wife.
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> “I refuse,” he said. “And that takes but a second.”

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> “Don’t these people ever get lonely?”
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> “They’re used to it this way.”
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> “Don’t they get afraid, then?”
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> ”They have a religion for that.”
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> “I wish I had a religion.”
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> “The minute you get a religion you stop thinking,” he said. “Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.”

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> “Oh,” said Brunilla, the cow-searcher. “A man with wings.”
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> That was how she took it. She was startled, yes, but she had never been hurt in her life, so she wasn’t afraid of anyone, and it was a fancy thing to see a winged man and she was proud to meet him.

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> THE OCTOBER COUNTRY …that country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain…

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> More murders are committed at ninety-two degrees Fahrenheit than any other temperature. Over one hundred, it’s too hot to move. Under ninety, cool enough to survive. But right at ninety-two degrees lies the apex of irritability, everything is itches and hair and sweat and cooked pork. The brain becomes a rat rushing around a red-hot maze. The least thing, a word, a look, a sound, the drop of a hair and—irritable murder.

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