Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Quotes

• “Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brillian...”
• “He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflecte...”
• “We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us w...”
• “Hello!"He said hello and then said, "What are you up to now?""I'm still crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it...”
• “Everyone must leave something behind when he dies . . . Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere ...”
• “Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing ...”
• “Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable...”
• “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 s...”
• “These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their ow...”
• “It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something...”
• “Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than...”
• “There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be som...”
• “Why is it,"he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?""Because I like you,"she sai...”
• “But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world b...”
• “The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hou...”
• “Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what s...”
• “The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for ...”
• “For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a pers...”
• “The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”
• “Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!”
• “I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down?”
• “I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.”
• “The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.”
• “The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.”
• “Are you happy?”