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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 53e82e2 | I don't know. We have everything we need to be happy, but we're not happy. Something's missing. I looked around. The only thing I positively knew was gone was the books I'd burned in ten or twelve years. So I thought books might help." "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 "parlour families.. | meaning-in-literature | Ray Bradbury | |
| 179db01 | There are many actors alone who haven't acted Pirandello or Shaw or Shakespeare for years because their plays are too aware of the world. We could use their anger. And we could use the honest rage of those historians who haven't written a line for forty years. True, we might form classes in thinking and reading. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| f12836d | E o que significa a palavra qualidade? Para mim significa textura. Este livro tem poros. Tem feicoes. Este livro poderia passar pelo microscopio. Voce encontraria vida sob a lamina, emanando em profusao infinita. Quanto mais poros, quanto mais detalhes de vida fielmente gravados por centimetro quadrado voce conseguir captar numa folha de papel, mais "literario" voce sera. Pelo menos essa e minha definicao. Detalhes reveladores. Detalhes fre.. | 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 | |
| 59ed411 | See the world: It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| ca66db9 | Dandelion Wine is nothing if it is not the boy-hid-in-the-man playing in the fields of the Lord on the green grass of other Augusts in the midst of starting to grow up, grow old, and sense darkness waiting under the trees to seed the blood. I | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 8587540 | One last thing," said Beatty. "At least once in his career, every fireman gets an itch. What do the books say, he wonders. Oh, to scratch that itch, eh? Well, Montag, take my word for it, I've had to read a few in my time, to know what I was about, and the books say nothing! Nothing you can teach or believe. They're about nonexistent people, figments of imagination, if they're fiction. And if they're nonfiction, it's worse, one professor ca.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| fc72cab | The world swarms with people, each one drowning, but each swimming a different stroke to the far shore. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 049295e | Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping it's life away | Ray Bradbury | ||
| ada346a | He almost turned back to make the walk again, to give her time to appear. He was certain if he tried the same route, everything would work out fine. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 9159494 | I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on the Internet. Three companies have offered to put books by me on the Net, and I said, 'If you can make something that has a nice jacket, nice paper with that nice smell, then we'll talk.' All the computer can give you is a manuscript. People don't want to read manuscripts. They want to read books. Books smell good. They look good. You can pre.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 4ff8191 | You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you." - Ray Bradbury" | Craig Hart | ||
| a7066d9 | When I reread it as a teenager, Fahrenheit 451 had become a book about independence, about thinking for yourself. It was about treasuring books and the dissent inside the covers of books. It was about how we as humans begin by burning books and end by burning people. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 375d2ab | And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine or library. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 170d26a | Diado mi kazvashe, che vseki triabva da ostavi neshcho sled sebe si, kogato umre. Dete ili kniga, ili kartina, ili k'shcha, ili stena, koiato e postroil, ili chift obuvki, koito e izrabotil. Ili p'k gradina, koiato e posadil. Neshcho, do koeto r'kata ti se e dokosnala po tak'v nachin, che da ima k'de da otide dushata ti, kogato umresh. I kogato khorata poglednat d'rvoto ili tsveteto, koito si posadil, shche te vidiat v tiakh. Niama znacheni.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 8d034c5 | Perfect, faultless, in ruins, yes, but perfect,nevertheless. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 65b0769 | Last night I thought about all that kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before." He got out of bed. "It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life a.. | books bother create creation creativity destruction ignorance important kerosene life lifetime observation real reality reality-check thought time work world | Ray Bradbury | |
| c48611d | Rubens! All bosom and bum, big cumulus clouds of pink flesh, eh? You can feel the heart beating like a kettledrum in a ton of that stuff. Every woman a bed; throw yourself on them, sink from sight. | rubens sensuality women | Ray Bradbury | |
| 664bf53 | Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there. He will have plenty of places to choose from. RIP | Ray Bradbury | ||
| b373b91 | He stood and he only had one leg. The other was like a chunk of burnt pine-log he was carrying along as a penance for some obscure sin. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 5337eb1 | But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority. Oh, God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 8609b3f | It is a subliminal thing. It is the tick of a clock that has ticked so long one no longer notices. Something is in a room when a man lives in it. Something is not in the room when a man is dead in it. | living subliminal | Ray Bradbury | |
| 8cd2cda | Think I'll go eat me a doughnut and take me a nap. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 5bf6a20 | Looking at her in the hospital he had thought, I don't know you, who you are, does it matter if we live or die? | know live | Ray Bradbury | |
| d615d90 | They got Indian vision and can sight back further than you and me will ever sight ahead. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 3e10f73 | Tom - obadi se D'glas, - iskam da mi obeshchaesh samo edno, mozhe li? - Mozhe. Kakvo? - Nishcho, che si mi brat, i nishcho, che po niakoi p't me e iad na tebe - obeshchavash li nikoga da ne me izostaviash? - Iskash da kazhesh, che veche shche mi davash da idvam s teb i drugite, kato tr'gvate naniak'de, taka li? - Ami... da... dori i tova. No nai-veche iskam da kazha da ne me izostaviash izobshcho, razbirash li? Da ne te sgazva kola i da ne .. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 6fbfe2b | les livres ne racontent rien. Rien que tu puisse croire ou enseigner aux autre. Si ce sont des romans, ils parlent d'etres qui n'existent pas, de produits de l'imagination. Dans le cas contraire, c'est encore pire. Chaque professeur traite l'autre d'idiot. Chaque philosophe essaie de brailler plus fort que son adversaire. Ils galopent tous dans tous les sens, obscurcissant les etoiles, eteignant le soleil. On en sort completement perdu. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| dd8639d | Nous sommes les joyeux drilles, les boute-en-train, toi, moi et les autres. Nous faisons front contre la maree de ceux qui veulent plonger le monde dans la desolation en suscitant le conflit entre la theorie et la pensee. Nous avons les doigts accroches au parapet. Tenons bon. Ne laissons pas le torrent de la melancolie et de la triste philosophie noyer notre monde. Nous comptons sur toi. Je ne crois pas que tu te rendes compte de ton impor.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 30723cb | insanlar daha cok mesaleye benziyorlardi;birileri ufleyinceye kadar yanarlardi.Ne kadar nadir diger insanlarin yuzleri sizi sizden alip,kendi duygularinizi en titrek dusuncelerinizi sizlere yansitirdi? | Ray Bradbury | ||
| aab5bca | How's Uncle Louis today?" "Who?" "And Aunt Maude?" -- | humour | Ray Bradbury | |
| c43939c | He saw himself in her eyes, suspended in two shining drops of bright water, himself dark and tiny, in fine detail, the lines about his mouth, everything there, as if her eyes were two miraculous bits of violet amber that might capture and hold him intact. Her face, turned to him now, was fragile milk crystal with a soft and constant light in it. | detail | Ray Bradbury | |
| f6bc352 | The crisis is past and all is well, the sheep returns to the fold. We're all sheep who have strayed at times. Truth is truth, to the end of reckoning, we've cried. They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts, we've shouted to ourselves. | sheep thoughts truth | Ray Bradbury | |
| 4c930f1 | A young reader finding this book today, or the day after tomorrow, is going to have to imagine first a past, and then a future that belongs to that past. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| b33bf2f | 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 the doing. | persistence | Ray Bradbury | |
| f4ffa33 | Summer was over. Of course you can't tell in Los Angeles. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 2b7f768 | Come on, get up, get up, you can't just sit! But he was still crying and that had to be finished. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| a48a099 | Granger stood looking at Montag. "Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there. It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the.. | life | Ray Bradbury | |
| 64b2967 | The things you're looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine percent of them is in a book. Don't ask for guarantees. And 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. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| bd231a5 | Silly words, silly words, silly awful hurting words. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 72bbb17 | There are billions of us and that's too many. Nobody knows anyone. Strangers come and violate you. Strangers come and cut your heart out. Strangers come and take your blood. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| ec388df | It was pretty silly quoting poetry around free and easy like that. It was the act of a silly damn snob. Give man a few lines of verse and he thinks he's the Lord of all Creation. You think you can walk on water with all your books. Well, the world can get by just fine without them. | literature poetry reading | Ray Bradbury | |
| 12057ba | The men were making too much noise, laughing, joking, to cover her terrible accusing silence below. She made the empty rooms roar with accusation and shake down a fine dust go guilt that was sucked in their nostrils as they plunged about. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 8f8d8d2 | Number one: Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me it means texture. This book has pores. It has features. This book can go under the microscope. You'd find life under the glass, streaming past in infinite profusion. The more pores, the more truthfully recorded details of life per square inch you can get on a sheet of paper, the more 'literary' you are. That.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| c7e0141 | Perhaps I expected to look in and find a giant canary, stretched out on a carpet of dust, songless, capable of only heart murmurs for talk. | Ray Bradbury |