Quotations (37)

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“Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal.”
“He was moving from an unreality that was frightening into a reality that was unreal because it was new.”
“How many times can a man go down and still be alive?”
“You always said, don’t face a problem, burn it. Well, now I’ve done both. Goodbye, Captain.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Once, books appealed to a few people, here, there, everywhere. They could afford to be different.”
“Well, wasn't there a wall between him and Mildred, when you came down to it? Literally not just one wall but, so far, three!”
“He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off…with the mask and there was no way of going to knock…and ask for it back.”
And if it was not the three walls soon to be four walls and the dream complete, then it was the open car and Mildred driving a hundred miles an hour across town, he shouting at her and she shouting back and both trying to hear what was…
"'I hate a Roman named Status Quo!'" [Granger quoting his grandfather, to Montag.]
"… 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…
“Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds...''
"'My grandfather ran off the V-2 rocket film a dozen times and then hoped that someday our cities would open up more and let the green and the land and the wilderness in more, to remind people that were alotted a little space on earth and…
"'I hate a Roman named Status Quo!' he said to me.' 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 any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no garantees, ask…
britprincess1ajax
"Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore."
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"Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see…
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"Those who don't build must burn."
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"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 time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine…
britprincess1ajax
"There was a silly damn bird called a Phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a pyre and burned himself up. He must have been first cousin to Man. But every time he burnt himself up he sprang out of the ashes, he got…
“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 any dream made or paid for in factories.”
white_lion_217
much this late in the game. . . .” “I can get books.” “You’re running a risk.” “That’s the good part of dying; when you’ve nothing to
"Ask for 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 its life away. To hell with that,......"
"Look at the world out there, my God, my God, look at it out there, outside me, out there beyond my face and the only way to really touch it is to put it where it's finally me, where it's in the blood, where it pumps around a thousand…
"The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies."