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So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless. ~ Ray Bradbury
Litcharts Fahrenheit 451 quotes by Ray Bradbury
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. ~ Ray Bradbury
Litcharts Fahrenheit 451 quotes by Ray Bradbury
You'd type like hell. I spent $9.80 and in nine days I had Fahrenheit 451. ~ Ray Bradbury
Litcharts Fahrenheit 451 quotes by Ray Bradbury
Where's your common sense? None of those books agree with each other. You've been locked up here for years with a regular damned Tower of Babel. Snap out of it! The people in those books never lived. Come on now! ~ Ray Bradbury
Litcharts Fahrenheit 451 quotes by Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people who write books are. Writers love writing books like this, and for some reason, we let them get away with it. ~ Josh Lieb
Litcharts Fahrenheit 451 quotes by Josh Lieb
In writing the short novel Fahrenheit 451 I thought I was describing a world that might evolve in four or five decades. But only a few weeks ago, in Beverly Hills one night, a husband and wife passed me, walking their dog. I stood staring after them, absolutely stunned. The woman held in one hand a small cigarette-package-sized radio, its antenna quivering. From this sprang tiny copper wires which ended in a dainty cone plugged into her right ear. There she was, oblivious to man and dog, listening to far winds and whispers and soap-opera cries, sleep-walking, helped up and down curbs by a husband who might just as well not have been there. This was not fiction. ~ Ray Bradbury
Litcharts Fahrenheit 451 quotes by Ray Bradbury
Now let's take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes of the dog-lovers, the cat-lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second-generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon or Mexico. The people in this book, this play, this TV serial are not meant to represent any actual painters, cartographers, mechanics anywhere. The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy, remember that! ~ Ray Bradbury
Litcharts Fahrenheit 451 quotes by Ray Bradbury
[U]se extreme caution, and please remember that 451 degrees Fahrenheit is more than just a book a title.... ~ Ammon Shea
Litcharts Fahrenheit 451 quotes by Ammon Shea
If someone tells you what a story is about, they are probably right.
If they tell you that that is all a story is about, they are very definitely wrong. ~ Neil Gaiman
Litcharts Fahrenheit 451 quotes by Neil Gaiman
He was a victim of concussion. When it was all over he felt like a man who had been thrown from a cliff, whirled in a centrifuge, and spat out over a waterfall that fell and fell into emptiness and emptiness and never-- quite--touched--bottom--never--never--quite--no not quite--touched bottom... and you fell so fast you didn't touch the sides either... never... quite... touched... anything ~ Ray Bradbury
Litcharts Fahrenheit 451 quotes by Ray Bradbury
The books are to remind us what asses and fool we are. They're Caeser's praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, "Remember, Caeser, thou art mortal." Most of us can't rush around, talking to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book. Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore. ~ Ray Bradbury
Litcharts Fahrenheit 451 quotes by Ray Bradbury
The Wardens put on their own epic production of Fahrenheit 452," Bob said. "They spent about twenty years finding and destroying copies. ~ Jim Butcher
Litcharts Fahrenheit 451 quotes by Jim Butcher
You can't ever have my books. ~ Ray Bradbury
Litcharts Fahrenheit 451 quotes by Ray Bradbury
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. ~ Ray Bradbury
Litcharts Fahrenheit 451 quotes by Ray Bradbury
You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. ~ Ray Bradbury
Litcharts Fahrenheit 451 quotes by Ray Bradbury
I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. ~ Ray Bradbury
Litcharts Fahrenheit 451 quotes by Ray Bradbury
Do you ever read any of the books you burn?"
He laughed. "That's against the law!"
"Oh. Of course. ~ Ray Bradbury
Litcharts Fahrenheit 451 quotes by Ray Bradbury
Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them, at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. - Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 ~ Ray Bradbury
Litcharts Fahrenheit 451 quotes by Ray Bradbury
Politicians in our times feed their clichés to television, where even those who wish to disagree repeat them. Television purports to challenge political language by conveying images, but the succession from one frame to another can hinder a sense of resolution. Everything happens fast, but nothing actually happens. Each story on televised news is "breaking" until it is displaced by the next one. So we are hit by wave upon wave but never see the ocean.

The effort to define the shape and significance of events requires words and concepts that elude us when we are entranced by visual stimuli. Watching televised news is sometimes little more than looking at someone who is also looking at a picture. We take this collective trance to be normal. We have slowly fallen into it.

More than half a century ago, the classic novels of totalitarianism warned of the domination of screens, the suppression of books, the narrowing of vocabularies, and the associated difficulties of thought. In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, published in 1953, firemen find and burn books while most citizens watch interactive television. In George Orwell's 1984, published in 1949, books are banned and television is two-way, allowing the government to observe citizens at all times. In 1984, the language of visual media is highly constrained, to starve the public of the concepts needed to think about the present, remember the past, and consider the future. One of the regime's projects is to lim ~ Timothy Snyder
Litcharts Fahrenheit 451 quotes by Timothy Snyder
right from the start of Fahrenheit 451 everybody on the unit has begun to read. There are often hundreds of books on the set; each member of the unit chooses one, and sometimes you can hear nothing but the sound of turning pages. Wednesday, ~ Ray Bradbury
Litcharts Fahrenheit 451 quotes by Ray Bradbury
We all do what we do. ~ Ray Bradbury
Litcharts Fahrenheit 451 quotes by Ray Bradbury
By 1950, he had come to view the pedestrian as a threshold or indicator species capable of foretelling things to come - if the rights of the pedestrian were threatened, it would be an early indicator that broader freedoms of thought and action were also at risk. ~ Jonathan Eller
Litcharts Fahrenheit 451 quotes by Jonathan Eller
Well, Bradbury's a genius. Fahrenheit 451 is one of my favorite books of all time, and The Illustrated Man as a collection of short stories ranks up there. When you read it you realize how influential it is on so many other stories and people. ~ Zack Snyder
Litcharts Fahrenheit 451 quotes by Zack Snyder
The woman knelt among the books, touching the drenched leather and cardboard, reading the gilt titles with her fingers while her eyes accused Montage.
"You can't ever have my books," she said. ~ Ray Bradbury
Litcharts Fahrenheit 451 quotes by Ray Bradbury
I'll be like in that movie, that one where all the people walk around recitin' the books they memorized after all the books were burned. Form a retreat, a cult of over-specialized cold warriors like me. Recite the blue pubs, the yellow pubs, the red pubs, the black pubs. Muttering men keeping the data alive. ~ James W. Blinn
Litcharts Fahrenheit 451 quotes by James W. Blinn
And wasn't it this bright boy you selected for beating and tortures after hours? Of course it was. We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for their are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? Me? I won't stomach them for a minute. And so when houses were finally fireproofed completely, all over the world (you were correct in your assumption the other night) there was no longer need of firemen for the old purposes. They were given the new job, as custodians of our peace of mind, the focus of our understandable and rightful dread of being inferior: official censors, judges and executors. That's you, Montag, and that's me. ~ Ray Bradbury
Litcharts Fahrenheit 451 quotes by Ray Bradbury
To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes. ~ Ray Bradbury
Litcharts Fahrenheit 451 quotes by Ray Bradbury
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing. ~ Ray Bradbury
Litcharts Fahrenheit 451 quotes by Ray Bradbury
Do you notice how people hurt each other nowadays?"
"You sound so very old"
"Sometimes I'm ancient. I'm afraid of children my own age. They kill each other. Did it always used to be that way? ~ Ray Bradbury
Litcharts Fahrenheit 451 quotes by Ray Bradbury
Another Mexican American in another class, approaches Victor after class, carrying his copy of Fahrenheit 451, required reading for the course. The student doesn't understand the reference to a salon. Victor explains that this is just another word for the living room. No understanding in the student's eyes. He tries Spanish: la salon. Still nothing. The student has grown up as a migrant worker. And Victor remembers the white student who had been in his class a quarter ago, who had written about not understanding racism, that there was none where he had grown up, in Wennatchee, that he has played with the children of his father's migrant workers without there being any hostility. His father's workers. Property. Property that doesn't know of living rooms. And Victor thought of what the man from Wennatchee knew, what the ROTC Mexican American knew, what the migrant worker knew. And he thought of getting up the next morning to go with Serena to St. Mary's for cheese and butter. And he knew there was something he was not doing in his composition classrooms. ~ Victor Villanueva
Litcharts Fahrenheit 451 quotes by Victor Villanueva
On the front porch where she had come to weigh them quietly with her eyes, her quietness a condemnation, the woman stood motionless. ~ Ray Bradbury
Litcharts Fahrenheit 451 quotes by Ray Bradbury
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. ~ Ray Bradbury
Litcharts Fahrenheit 451 quotes by Ray Bradbury
'Fahrenheit 451' postulates a lot of things I didn't want to have happen. ~ Ray Bradbury
Litcharts Fahrenheit 451 quotes by Ray Bradbury
Books bombarded his shoulders, his arms, his upturned face. A book lit, almost obediently, like a white pigeon, in his hands, wings fluttering. ~ Ray Bradbury
Litcharts Fahrenheit 451 quotes by Ray Bradbury
The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened. ~ Ray Bradbury
Litcharts Fahrenheit 451 quotes by Ray Bradbury
I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal. ~ Ray Bradbury
Litcharts Fahrenheit 451 quotes by Ray Bradbury
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