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- Ray Bradbury, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Kurt Vonnegut, William Edgar Stafford, Bernard Malamud, Judi...
- 1953
- “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 said, "and I don't want anything from you.”
- “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.”
- “Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made.
- “We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”
Explanation of the famous quotes in Fahrenheit 451, including all important speeches, comments, quotations, and monologues.
Fahrenheit 451 Quotes. 25 of the best book quotes from Fahrenheit 451. 01. “No one has time any more for anyone else.” Ray Bradbury. author. Fahrenheit 451. book. Clarisse McClellan. character. friendship. ᐧ. time. concepts. 02. “But time to think?
The quotes from " Fahrenheit 451 " examine the dangers of censorship, how technology can dehumanize us, and why independent thought and intellectual freedom is healthy for any society.
- Part 1: The Hearth and The Salamander
- Part 2: The Sieve and The Sand
- Part 3: Burning Bright
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It was a pleasure to burn.I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane. (7)"Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course." "It's fine work. Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then...I sometimes think drivers don’t know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly.If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! he’d say, that’s grass! A pink blur! That’s a rose ga...Then she seemed to remember something and came back to look at him with wonder and curiosity. "Are you happy?" she said. (10)"You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon, last night. The others would never do that. The othe...We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.I looked around. The only thing I positively knew was gone was the books I'd burned in ten or twelve years. So I tho...
This is happening to me. "What a dreadful surprise," said Beatty. "For everyone nowadays knows, absolutely is certain, that nothing will ever happen to me. Others die, I go on. There are no consequ...
(Why couldn't you write after 9/11?) AH: I was so depressed and hopeless about the state of the world. When I re-read Fahrenheit 451, a book about how important books are, I was reminded of the rea...
Encyclopedic article on Fahrenheit 451on WikipediaMedia related to Fahrenheit 451on Wikimedia CommonsInformation about Fahrenheit 451BookRags study guide on Fahrenheit 451Find famous quotes from Ray Bradbury's dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, along with contextual explanations and literary analysis. Explore the themes of books, fire, and society through the words of the characters and the narrator.
The sun burnt every day. It burnt time. There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
