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edf3602 I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things. ray-bradbury Ray Bradbury
7f007c3 When they give you lined paper, write the other way. ray-bradbury Ray Bradbury
665261b I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them with salt, doused them with relish, gnawed on the bindings, turned the chapters with my tongue! Books by the dozen, the score and the billion. I carried so many home I was hunchbacked for years. Philosophy, art history, politics, social science, the poem, the essay, the grandiose play, you name 'em, I ate 'em. words literature reading ray-bradbury 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
65693b4 Sunsets are loved because they vanish. Flowers are loved because they go. The dogs of the field and the cats of the kitchen are loved because soon they must depart. These are not the sole reasons, but at the heart of morning welcomes and afternoon laughters is the promise of farewell. In the gray muzzle of an old dog we see goodbye. In the tired face of an old friend we read long journeys beyond returns. ray-bradbury Ray Bradbury
fc3ad15 Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years. humor ray-bradbury nerdiness science-fiction Junot Díaz
20ed143 Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures. writing treasure trash ray-bradbury 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
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
8a9d20a I know, i know. You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was younger I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the times I was fort my blunt instrument has been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hid your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn. ray-bradbury science-fiction Ray Bradbury
a9e312c The important thing for you to remember, Montag, is we're the Happiness Boys, the Dixie Duo, you and I and the others. We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought. We have our fingers in the dike. Hold steady. Don't let the torrent of melancholy and drear philosophy drown our world. We depend on you. I don't think you realize how important you are, we are, to our happy world as it stands now. happiness ray-bradbury Ray Bradbury
77c8899 Because her flesh knows heat, cold, affliction, I know fire, snow, and pain. women ray-bradbury wicked Ray Bradbury
8333247 Pasamos la vida entera aprendiendo a olvidar cosas que en realidad estan dentro ray-bradbury Ray Bradbury
39666bd You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. ray-bradbury mgg mistakes Ray Bradbury
003a7a3 The thing that makes me happy is that I know that on Mars, two hundred years from now, my books are going to be read. They'll be up on dead Mars with no atmosphere. And late at night, with a flashlight, some little boy is going to peek under the covers and read on Mars. ray-bradbury mars Ray Bradbury
df672e2 How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever. So what do we do? We men turn terribly mean, because we can't hold to the world or ourselves or anything. We are blind to continuity, all breaks down, falls, melts, stops, rots, or runs away. So, since we cannot shape Time, where does that leave men? Sleepless. Staring. time women ray-bradbury Ray Bradbury
be67685 Men are men, unfortunately, no matter what their shape, and inclined to sin. truth ray-bradbury sin 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
e75e7ce Happiness is important. Fun is everything. fun happiness 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
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
537a863 We all do what we do. life ray-bradbury mgg Ray Bradbury
ab5fcb2 Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine. time ray-bradbury mgg Ray Bradbury
ed42e56 The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope that your joy will seek and find others in the world who, reading your story, will catch fire, too? writing gusto zest ray-bradbury writers Ray Bradbury
99a2517 War is a bad thing, but peace can be a living horror war living-horror ray-bradbury peace Ray Bradbury
ba052d9 Everybody else going through the terror and joy of their first crushes, their first dates, their first kisses while Oscar sat in the back of the class, behind his DM's screen, and watched his adolescence stream by. Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years. ray-bradbury Junot Díaz
1c38313 You must remember, burn them or they'll burn you... fahrenheit-451 ray-bradbury censorship-of-books burn dystopian fire censorship Ray Bradbury
27d0b72 You could see her thoughts swimming around in her eyes, like fish - some bright, some dark, some fast, quick, some slow and easy, and sometimes, like when she looked up where Earth was, being nothing but colour and nothing else. thoughts ray-bradbury Ray Bradbury
61388a8 "Vzemaiti vsichko, kakvoto poiskate, pri uslovie, che naistina go zhelaete. Eto kak shche razberete. Popitvate se: "Iskam li tova neshcho ot tsialoto si s'rtse? Bikh li mog'l da prezhiveia tozi den bez nego?" I ako usetite, che bez nego do zalez sl'ntse shche ste se povalili m'rtvi, grabvate sk'potsennoto neshcho i si go otnasiate s vas." вино-от-глухарчета рей-бредбъри ray-bradbury Ray Bradbury
ab2514e Don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore. life ray-bradbury self-help Ray Bradbury
9796b60 Tiene que haber algo en los libros, cosas que no podemos imaginar para hacer que una mujer permanezca en una casa que arde. Ahi tiene que haber algo. Uno no se sacrifica por nada. guy-montag ray-bradbury Ray Bradbury
e92ed31 When I was a boy, Ray Bradbury picked stories from his books of short stories he thought younger readers might like and published them as R Is for Rocket and S Is for Space. Now I was doing the same sort of thing, and I asked Ray if he'd mind if I called this book M Is for Magic. (He didn't.) M is for magic. All the letters are, if you put them together properly. You can make magic with them, and dreams, and, I hope, even a few surprises... writing ray-bradbury stories Neil Gaiman
815d5ee "The Wardens put on their own epic production of Fahrenheit 451," Bob said. "They spent about twenty years finding and destroying copies." ray-bradbury Jim Butcher
c2345e2 That's the way to tour Disneyland, with a complete suspension of disbelief, with a drunken sense of joy and eyes wide with wonder. Let the child inside you come out and play. Laugh and shout! Plunge into the mind and soul of Walt Disney. ---Ray Bradbury walt-disney disneyland ray-bradbury Jim Denney
0146c01 I had no way to stop . I did not write Fahrenheit 451, it wrote me. writing ray-bradbury Ray Bradbury
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