# Quote — Ray Bradbury, The October Country

> 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.

- Author: [Ray Bradbury](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury.md)
- Book: [The October Country](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/the-october-country.md)
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> 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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