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And then, quite suddenly, summer was over.
Dandelion Wine (1957)
There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.
Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.
Cardiff read these words: HOPE MEMORIAL LIBRARY. And in small letters beneath that: KNOW HOPE, ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE.
Now and Forever (2007)
Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.
The Circus of Dr. Lao Introduction (1956)
God, how we get our fingers in each other’s clay. That’s friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of the other.
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962)
The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
“I suspect,” said Elias Culpepper, “you are in need of a drink.”
“Two,” said Cardiff, “would be fine.”
Now and Forever (2007)
“And what happened next?”
“Silence happened next. God, it was beautiful.”
The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)
The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes.
And the Rock Cried Out (1953)
“You go against the letter of the law!”
“No,” explained the priest, calmly, “we but shift the punctuation, cross new t’s, dot new i’s.”
The Toynbee Convector (1988)
Night had come on like the closing of a great but gentle eye.
R Is for Rocket (1962)
On the whole, the change had done Huxley a share of good. Death made him a handsomer man to deal with. You could talk to him now and he’d have to listen.
The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)
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.
Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
“You move against my ethics,” said the priest.
“A drowning man clutches at anything,” said Nolan, “and ethics may drown with him if that’s what he grabs instead of a life belt.”
I Sing the Body Electric! (1969)
“Watch your liver!” said his mother.
“Is that a threat, or a toast?” said his father.
The Toynbee Convector (1988)
Oh God, without them [libraries], what have we? We have no past and we have no future.
I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I’ve got what amounts to a religion, now.
The Martian Chronicles (1950)
Oh, oh. Here he comes, Moses crossing a Black Sea of bile.
I Sing the Body Electric! (1969)
We never sit anything out. We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
Zen in the Art of Writing (1990)