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| 5d4e6f5 | Nineteen-year-old Ray Bradbury was rambunctious and so energetic that it made Leslyn tired to be in the same room with him; it was too much like having to manage a large and unruly puppy | William H. Patterson Jr. | ||
| e61157b | Montag looked at the river. We'll go on the river. He looked at the old railroad tracks. Or we'll go that way. Or we'll walk on the highways now, and we'll have time to put things into ourselves. And someday, after it sets in us a long time, it'll come out our hands and our mouths. And a lot of it will be wrong, but just enough of it will be right. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| c91c021 | to gently lie and prove the lie true...everything is finally a promise...what seems a lie is a ramshackle need, wishing to be born.... | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 92a2590 | Now let's take up the minorities in our civilization, 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 paint.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 3fecfb6 | ridges of his thumbprint. He touched me. As I said | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 5f12534 | Surely you remember the boy in your own school class who was exceptionally "bright", did most of the reciting and answering while the others sat like so many leaden idols, hating him. And wasn't it this bright boy you selected for beatings 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 made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 58ff3a6 | But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority. Oh, God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 6bd9bae | Some day our cities would open up and let the green and the land and the wilderness in more, to remind people that we're allotted a little space on earth and that we survive in that wilderness that can take back what it has given, as easily as blowing its breath on us or sending the sea to tell us we are not so big. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| d7f9422 | Eto, v tova e neshchastieto na vasheto pokolenie -- v'zklikna diadoto. -- Slushai, Bil, sram me e zaradi tebe, i ti si mi bil zhurnalist! Izkhv'rliate ot toia zhivot vsichko, koeto e slozheno v nego, za da mu dava vkus. Pestite ni vremeto, pestite ni truda -- drugo ne znaete! -- Toi podritna prezritelno trevnite chimove. -- Kogato ostareesh kato mene, togava shche razberesh, che malkite radosti i malkite neshcha struvat poveche ot golemite... | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 57a5292 | lsHr mwjwd fqT fy m tqwlh lktb wkyf khTt rq` lkwn m`an fy rd wHd | Ray Bradbury | ||
| b5e6c87 | Fire is bright and fire is clean. That way lies melancholy. Don't let the torrent of melancholy and drear philosophy drown our world. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 02685a2 | I libri erano soltanto una specie di veicolo, di ricettacolo in cui riponevamo tutte le cose che temevamo di poter dimenticare. Non c'e nulla di magico, nei libri; la magia sta solo in cio che essi dicono, nel modo in cui hanno cucito le pezze dell'Universo per mettere insieme cosi un mantello onde rivestirci. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 3362680 | Now, sucking all the night into his open mouth and blowing it out pale, with all the blackness left heavily inside himself... | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 907baf5 | There's enough. It comes in the window and blows the curtains a little bit. Just enough to tell me." "Look, why don't you come and spend the night here?" said Herb Thompson looking around the lighted hall. "Oh, no. It's too late for that. It might catch me on the way over. It's a damned long distance. I wouldn't dare, but thanks, anyway. It's thirty miles, but thanks." "Take a sleeping-tablet." "I've been standing in the door for the past h.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| c6828cd | All the things in life that were put here to savor, you eliminate. Save time, save work, you say." He nudged the grass trays disrespectfully. "Bill, when you're my age, you'll find out it's the little savors and little things that count more than | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 26c67eb | All of the hot-dog stands were boarded up with strips of golden planking, sealing in all the mustard, onion, meat odors of the long, joyful summer. It was like nailing summer into a series of coffins. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 0ee9bd6 | Let me alone," said Mildred. "I didn't do anything." "Let you alone! That's all very well, but how can I leave myself alone? We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?" | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 1c3634b | He had once been a wanderer of libraries and a lover of the finest literature in history. But when real life diminished him, when friends died, when a love failed, when there were too many deaths and accidents surrounding him, he discovered that his faith in books had failed because they could not help him when he needed the help. Turning on them, he lit a match. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 2e8a83f | But I wanted more. Which is partly why the story took so long to complete. Also I broke one of the unwritten rules of storytelling and told a writing class that I was planning to use the Tunnel in a story, mentioned how I'd already photographed it, timed how long it took to make a crossing, things like that. Which promptly shut the whole thing down. As Ray Bradbury and Frank Herbert, among others, used to stress again and again: you never d.. | Jack Dann | ||
| 593b17d | And running, Will thought, Boy, it's the same old thing. I talk. Jim runs. I tilt stones, Jim grabs the cold junk under the stones and--lickety-split! I climb hills. Jim yells off church steeples. I got a bank account. Jim's got the hair on his head, the yell in his mouth, the shirt on his back and the tennis shoes on his feet. How come I think he's richer? Because, Will thought, I sit on a rock in the sun and old Jim, he prickles his arm-h.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 85ec0ce | I'm burning a way of life, just like that way of life is being burned clean of Earth right now. Forgive me if I talk like a politician. I am, after all, a former state governor, and I was honest and they hated me for it. Life on Earth never settled down to doing anything very good. Science ran too far ahead of us too quickly, and the people got lost in a mechanical wilderness like children making over pretty things, gadgets, helicopters, ro.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| b062481 | I don't know. We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't 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. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 3d64ba6 | From now on I hope always to stay alert, to educate myself as best I can. But, lacking this, in future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 65f9d66 | You can't build a house without nails and wood. If you don't want a house built, hide the nails and wood. If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it. Peace, Montag. Give the people contests t.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 6ea4812 | I was amused and somewhat astonished at a critic a few years back who wrote an article analyzing Dandelion Wine plus the more realistic works of Sinclair Lewis, wondering how I could have been born and raised in Waukegan, which I renamed Green Town for my novel, and not noticed how ugly the harbor was and how depressing the coal docks and railyards down below the town. But, of course, I had noticed them and, genetic enchanter that I was, wa.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 77d24dc | Everyone in the world needs two, three jobs," I said, without hesitation. "One job isn't enough, just as one life isn't enough. I want to have a dozen of both." "Bull's-eye. Doctors should dig ditches. Ditchdiggers ought to run kindergartens one day a week. Philosophers should wash dishes in a greasy spoon two nights out of ten. Mathematicians should blow whistles at high school gyms. Poets should drive trucks for a change of menu and polic.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 78522e4 | Now let's take up the minorities in our civilization, 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 paint.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 0bcc18b | Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| cb16f75 | Way late at night Will had heard--how often?--train whistles jetting steam along the rim of sleep, forlorn, alone and far, no matter how near they came. Sometimes he woke to find tears on his cheek, asked why, lay back, listened and thought, Yes! they make me cry, going east, going west, the trains of far gone in country deeps they drown in tides of sleep that escape the towns. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| e77f47e | Si no quieres que un hombre se sienta politicamente desgraciado, no le ensenes dos aspectos de una misma cuestion, para preocuparle; ensenale solo uno. O, mejor aun, no le des ninguno. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 75c9a64 | I'll burn, he thought, and be scattered in ashes all over the continental lands. I'll be put to use. Just a little bit, but ashes are ashes and they'll add to the land. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| adc3272 | the shade of the raining tree where the sky fell and was lost in autumn leaves and crept down at last in shining rivers along the branches and trunk | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 01f72be | No matter how we touch Mars, we'll never touch it. And then we'll get mad at it, and you know what we'll do? We'll rip it up, rip the skin off, and change it to fit ourselves. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 7385c6d | To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes, all that. But what else. What else? Something, something . . . And on either side of the river was there a tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month; And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 53598cc | Impossible, for how many people did you know that refracted your own light to you? People were more often - he searched for a smile,found one in his work - torches, blazing away until they whiffed out. How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought? | Ray Bradbury | ||
| f8f10bf | It was a day to be out of bed, to pull curtains and fling open windows.It was a day to make your heart bigger with warm mounain air. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| bf09b20 | When life is over it is like a flicker of bright film, an instant on the screen, all of its prejudices and passions condensed and illumined for an instant on space, and before you could cry out, "There was a happy day, there a bad one, there an evil face, there a good one," the film burned to a cinder, the screen went dark." | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 397b66c | Boy,' said Ralph, squinched up, balled up, feet against chest, eyes tight. 'England is no place to be a sinner. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 89a3aba | Did all dying people feel this way, as if they had never lived? | living | Ray Bradbury | |
| c70aca6 | He listened to the hooting of many metal horns, squealing of brakes, the calls of vendors selling red-purple bananas and jungle oranges in their stalls. Colonel Freeleigh's feet began to move, hanging from the edge of his wheel chair, making the motions of a man walking. His eyes squeezed tight. He gave a series of immense sniffs, as if to gain the odors of meats hung on iron hooks in sunshine, cloaked with flies like a mantle of raisins; t.. | memory nostalgia streets vendors | 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 | |
| 146b13c | You can't have one without the other. No fantasy, no reality. No studies concerning loss, no gain. No imagination, no will. No impossible dream: No possible solutions. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 923a5b8 | They quit trying too hard to destroy everything, to humble everything. They blended religion and art and science because, at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle. They never let science crush the aesthetic and the beautiful. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 57b6153 | You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I KNOW. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon, last night. The others would never do that. The others would walk off and leave me talking. Or threaten me. No one has time any more for anyone else. | Ray Bradbury |