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72dc345 "You're a hopeless romantic," said Faber. "It would be funny if it were not serious. It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books. The same things could be in the 'parlor families' today. The same infinite detail and awareness could be projected through the radios, and televisors, but are not. No,no it's not books at all you're looking for! Take it where you can find it, in old phonograph records, old motion pictures, and in old friends; look for it in nature and look for it in yourself. Books were only one type or receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. Of course you couldn't know this, of course you still can't understand what I mean when i say all this. You are intuitively right, that's what counts." magic love fahrenheit-451 knowledge Ray Bradbury
ee7530b Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the Universe together into one garment for us. magic bradbury fahrenheit-451 ray-bradbury Ray Bradbury
06a0dbb But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are. They're Caesar's praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, 'Remember, Caesar, thou art mortal.' Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book. reading fahrenheit-451 Ray Bradbury
7e04650 It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God. fahrenheit-451 ray-bradbury government technology Ray Bradbury
06a2867 Now let's take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes of the dog-lovers, the cat-lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second-generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon or Mexico. The people in this book, this play, this TV serial are not meant to represent any actual painters, cartographers, mechanics anywhere. The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy, remember that! politics fahrenheit-451 power-of-words Ray Bradbury
eecd89c And wasn't it this bright boy you selected for beating and tortures after hours? Of course it was. We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for their are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? Me? I won't stomach them for a minute. And so when houses were finally fireproofed completely, all over the world (you were correct in your assumption the other night) there was no longer need of firemen for the old purposes. They were given the new job, as custodians of our peace of mind, the focus of our understandable and rightful dread of being inferior: official censors, judges and executors. That's you, Montag, and that's me. equality fear happiness fahrenheit-451 ray-bradbury inferiority peace Ray Bradbury
10630c8 You can't ever have my books. fahrenheit-451 ray-bradbury mgg Ray Bradbury
b5532b5 For, let's face it, digression is the soul of wit. Take philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones. coda fahrenheit-451 Ray Bradbury
9a46e8f But that's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and worth the doing. life perserverence fahrenheit-451 life-goes-on ray-bradbury mgg Ray Bradbury
a023a78 Where's your common sense? None of those books agree with each other. You've been locked up here for years with a regular damned Tower of Babel. Snap out of it! The people in those books never lived. Come on now! tower-of-babel fahrenheit-451 variety perspectives ray-bradbury Ray Bradbury
1a0ccf3 "My feet," said Montag. "I can't move them. I feel so damn silly. My feet won't move!" "Listen. Easy now," said the old man gently. "I know, I know. You're afraid of making mistakes. be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn." -- learning life guy-montag fahrenheit-451 growth ignorance Ray Bradbury
4aa2ec1 I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. ray-bardbury fahrenheit-451 mgg seventeen teenagers crazy Ray Bradbury
092c6c5 He was a victim of concussion. When it was all over he felt like a man who had been thrown from a cliff, whirled in a centrifuge, and spat out over a waterfall that fell and fell into emptiness and emptiness and never-- quite--touched--bottom--never--never--quite--no not quite--touched bottom... and you fell so fast you didn't touch the sides either... never... quite... touched... anything fahrenheit-451 falling Ray Bradbury
a1fa054 He felt as if he had left a stage behind and many actors. He felt as if he had left the great seance and all the murmuring ghosts. He was moving from an unreality that was frightening into a reality that was unreal because it was new. fiction reality escape-from-reality fahrenheit-451 ray-bradbury rebirth dystopian dystopian-fiction Ray Bradbury
8c15102 Le cose che voi cercate, Montag, sono su questa terra, ma il solo modo per cui l'uomo medio potra vederne il novantanove per cento sara un libro. books citazioni fahrenheit-451 italiano letteratura quotes libri Ray Bradbury
1c38313 You must remember, burn them or they'll burn you... fahrenheit-451 ray-bradbury censorship-of-books burn dystopian fire censorship Ray Bradbury
74f99e0 Simplicity itself. Skin, debone, demarrow, scarify, melt, render down and destroy. Every adjective that counted, every verb that moved, every metaphor that weighed more than a mosquito--out! Every simile that would have made sub-moron's mouth twitch--gone! Any aside that explained the two-bit philosophy of a first-rate writer--lost! Every story slenderized, starved, bluepenciled, leeched and bled white, resembled every other story. Twain read like Poe read Shakespeare read like Dostoevsky read like--in the finale--Edgar Guest. Every word of more than three syllables had been razored. Every image that demanded so much as one instant's attention--shot dead. coda fahrenheit-451 Ray Bradbury
0e54c13 Knjige su samo jedna vrsta spremista za mnogo toga za sta smo strahovali da bismo mogli da zaboravimo. Nema u njima uopste niceg magicnog. Magija je samo u onome sto knjige kazuju, u tome kako zasivaju komade kosmosa u odecu za nas. fahrenheit-451 Ray Bradbury
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