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Kindness and intelligence are the preoccupations of age. Being cruel and thoughtless is far more fascinating when you’re twenty.

— Ray Bradbury Dandelion Wine (1957)

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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)

The first thing you learn in life is you’re a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you’re the same fool.

Dandelion Wine (1957)

Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here.

Speech at Brown University (1995)

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)

Mysteries abound where most we seek for answers.

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