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There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.
Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
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.
Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you, and you'll never learn.
Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
A book is a loaded gun in the house next door.
Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
Fahrenheit 451 (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)
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.
Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . 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.
Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
Those who don't build must burn.
Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
With schools turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word "intellectual," of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.
Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen, and the sun burnt Time, that meant everything burnt!
Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme.
Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
Montag, you're looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going, a long time back. I said nothing. I'm one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the "guilty," but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.
Fahrenheit 451 (1953)