Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

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1. So it was the hand that started it all . . . His hands had been infected, and soon it would be his arms . . . His hands were ravenous.


2. We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the constitution says, but everyone made equal . . . A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man’s mind.


3. Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me it means texture. This book has pores.


4. It’s perpetual motion; the thing man wanted to invent but never did. . . . It’s a mystery. . . . Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences . . . clean, quick, sure; nothing to rot later. Antibiotic, aesthetic, practical.


5. The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time . . . 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 that everything burnt!


seems

by curthis_h, December 13, 2012

seems alot like we are now

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really

by donivankyleh, December 13, 2012

really

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What street

by ponylover12, February 24, 2013

what street does montage live on/ or is there even a street

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