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“The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I believe in the power of origins, a belief that, as Ecclesiastes put it, 'that wich is done is that wich shall be done: and there is no new thing under de sun'; that we claim as originality and discovery are nothing but the airs and delusios of our innocence, ignorance, and arrogance: that whatever is said was said better - more powerfully, beautifully, and purely, long ago”
― Nick Tosches, Country: The Twisted Roots Of Rock 'n' Roll

“Read it up – you really should. There is nothing new under the sun. It has all been done before.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“A woman not only takes her identity and individuality for granted, but knows instinctively that the only wrong is to hurt others, and that the meaning of life is love.”
― Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto

“Kültürü" özümsemek, haz vermeyen bir dünyada çaresizce ve korku içinde haz almaya çalışmaktır, steril, akılsız bir varoluşun dehşetinden kaçmaya çalışmak. "Kültür", kifayetsizlerin egosuna bir parmak bal, edilgen seyirlerini makulleştirecek bir araç sağlar, "ince" işleri takdir edebildikleri için gururlanırlar, gübreye bakıp mücevher sandıkları için (beğendikleri için beğenilmek isterler). Herhangi bir şeyi değiştirmeye güçlerinin yeteceğine inançları olmadığı için statükoya yaslanırlar. Gübrede güzellik görmek zorundadırlar çünkü görebildikleri kadarıyla, ellerine gübreden fazlası geçmeyecektir.”
― Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto

“İhmal edilmiş çocukluğun
Epeski bir yoksulluğun
Yamalarını yüzünde taşırdı
Kimse öpmezdi Kimse
Yüzünün titrek sesini dinlemezdi
İçime dokunan bir halin vardı
Yalnızlığını kazısam Altından
Vahşi bir puhu kuşu çıkardı.
Hayata benzeyen bir yanın vardı
Puslu bir güne saklanan Karanlık
bir suskunluğunu ikiye ayıran
bir tabelaydı Frankfurttaydı
seni sevişim bir Laternaydı
Hep aynı şarkıyı çalardı.”
― Didem Madak, Pulbiber Mahallesi

“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“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, Fahrenheit 451

“If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it. Peace, Montag. Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“In one of our government departments... but perhaps I had better not say exactly which one. For no one's more touchy than people in government departments, regiments, chancelleries or, in short, any kind of official body. Nowadays every private citizen thinks the whole of society is insulted when he himself is.”
― Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat