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"And the sun goes on, day after day, burning and burning. The sun and time. The sun and time and burning. Burning."

"He was moving from an unreality that was frightening into a reality that was unreal because it was new."

"How many times can a man go down and still be alive?"

"Montag said, "I've been a fool all down the line. I can't stay long. I'm on my way God knows where." "At least you were a fool about the right things," said Faber."

"it was incredible how he felt his temperature could cause the whole immediate world to vibrate."

"Faber's would be the place where he might refuel his fast draining belief in his own ability to survive."

"Beatty, he thought, you're not a problem now. You always said, don't face a problem, burn it. Well, now I've done both. Good- bye, Captain."

"It was pretty silly, quoting poetry around free and easy like that. It was the act of a silly damn snob. Give a man a few lines of verse and he thinks he's the Lord of all Creation."

"What is fire? It's a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledegook about friction and molecules. But they don't really know. Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences. A problem gets too burdensome, then into the furnace with it."

""For everyone nowadays knows, absolutely is certain, that nothing will ever happen to me. Others die, I go on. There are no consequences and no responsibilities. Except that there are. But let's not talk about them, eh? By the time the consequences catch up with you, it's too late, isn't it, Montag?""

""He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.""

""Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. 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.""

""Maybe they're right, maybe it's best not to face things, to run, have fun. I don't know. I feel guilty.""

"'Silly words, silly words, silly awful hurting words," said Mrs. Bowles. "Why do people want to hurt people? Not enough hurt in the world, you've got to tease people with stuff like that!""

""Theory, hell," said Montag. "It's poetry.""

"Two Caesarians tamed the trick, yes, sir. Oh, my doctor said, Caesarians aren't necessary; you've got the, hips for it, everything's normal, but I insisted.""

""I don't want to change sides and just be told what to do. There's no reason to change if I do that.""

"My cowardice is of such a passion, complementing the revolutionary spirit that lives in its shadow, I was forced to design this.""

"The old man nodded. "Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents." "So that's what I am." "There's some of it in all of us.""

"And the Government, seeing how advantageous it was to have people reading only about passionate lips and the fist in the stomach, circled the situation with your fireeaters."

""Then you don't care any more?" "I care so much I'm sick.""

"Why waste your final hours racing about your cage denying you're a squirrel?""

"Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord. You firemen provide a circus now and then at which buildings are set off and crowds gather for the pretty blaze, but it's a small sideshow indeed, and hardly necessary to keep things in line. So few want to be rebels any more. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily."

""But that would just nibble the edges. The whole culture's shot through. The skeleton needs melting and reshaping.""

""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.""

""That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.""

""That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.""

""Number one, as I said, quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the inter- action of the first two.""

"Books can be beaten down with reason. But with all my knowledge and scepticism, I have never been able to argue with a one- hundred- piece symphony orchestra, full colour, three dimensions, and I being in and part of those incredible parlours."

""Why? The televisor is 'real.' It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be, right. It seems so right. It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn't time to protest, 'What nonsense!""