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Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 Quotes: He balanced in space with the book in his sweating cold fingers.
         

He balanced in space with the book in his sweating cold fingers.


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The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.



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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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The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.



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It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.



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It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.



I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.

I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.



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Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.





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