Fahrenheit 451 Quotes with Page Number
“Why is it,” he stated, one time, at the subway entrance, “I feel I’ve understood you so many years?””Since I like you,” she said, “and I do not desire anything from you.”
with marvel, he said, live as if you ‘d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more wonderful than any dream made or spent for in factories.”
leave something behind when he passes away, my grandpa stated. A kid or a book or a painting or a home or a wall developed or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has someplace to go when you pass away, and when people take a look at that tree or that flower you planted, you exist. It does not matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the method it was before you touched it into something that’s like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the male who just cuts lawns and a genuine garden enthusiast is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter may simply as well not have actually existed at all; the garden enthusiast will be there a lifetime.”
be not to mention. We need to be really bothered once in a while. For how long is it because you were really troubled? About something important, about something real?”—-“There must be something in books, something we can’t envision, to make a lady remain in a burning home; there must be something there. You do not remain for nothing.”– Chapter 4, page 104–” If you conceal your ignorance, nobody will
.”—-” With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers,
of conserving, and if you drown, a minimum of die knowing you were heading for coast.”– Chapter 3, page 79–“The great authors touch life often. The average ones run a quick turn over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for
the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of
parade roars down the avenue, “Keep in mind, Caeser, thou art mortal. “Most of us can’t hurry around, talking to everyone, understand all
, they state. I do not mix. It’s so unusual. I’m extremely social certainly. It all depends on what you indicate by social, doesn’t it? Social to me suggests speaking with you about things
names of state capitals or just how much corn Iowa grew last year. Pack them loaded with noncombustible data, chock them so damned filled with
they feel stuffed, but absolutely’brilliant’with details. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of movement without moving. And they’ll be happy, since realities of that sort don’t change.”—-“I don’t talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.”—-” Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the bulk. All of us have our harps to play. And it depends on you to understand with which ear you’ll listen.”—-” It does not matter what you do … so long as you change something from the way it was prior to you touched it into something that resembles you after you take your hands away.”—- “I’ll hold on to the world tight some day. I have actually got one finger on it now; that’s a beginning.”—-“You’re a hopeless romantic,”said Faber.” It would be amusing if it were not serious. It’s not books you require, it’s some of the things that when
same infinite information and awareness might be projected through the radios, and televisors, but are not. No, no it’s not books at all you’re looking for
where you can discover it, in old phonograph records, old movie, and in old pals; look for it in nature and try to find it in yourself. Books were only one type or receptacle where we saved a lot of things we hesitated we may forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books state, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. Of course you couldn’t understand this, obviously you still can’t understand what I indicate when i say all this. You are intuitively right, that’s what counts.”—-“Nobody listens anymore. I can’t speak with the walls due to the fact that they’re chewing out me. I can’t speak with my better half; she listens to the walls. I just desire someone to hear what I have to state. And maybe if I talk enough time, it’ll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read.”—-“See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or spent for in factories. Request for no assurances, request no security.”—- “That’s the great part of passing away; when you’ve absolutely nothing to lose, you run any danger you desire.”– Capter 3, page 85– “Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge. “—-” That’s the wonderful thing about man; he never ever gets so dissuaded or disgusted that he quits doing it all over again, due to the fact that he knows very well it is very important and
.”—-“We’re going to satisfy a lot of lonesome people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we’re doing, you can state, We’re keeping in mind. That’s where we’ll triumph in the long run. And one day we’ll keep in mind a lot that we’ll develop the biggest goddamn steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of perpetuity and push war in it and cover it up.”—— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451