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Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 Quotes: But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.
         

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.


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