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Do you see? Out of the nursery into the college and back to the nursery; there's your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.”
“'We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over, so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.'”
detail. The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.
The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are. They're Caesar's praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, 'Remember, Caesar, thou art mortal.'
Montag, go home. Go to bed. Why waste your final hours racing about your cage denying you're a squirrel?”
“Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.”
By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.
