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Ashley Gordon
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“Coloured people don't like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don't feel good about Uncle Tom's Cabin. Burn it. Someone's written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
“The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
“I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
“We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing...
It is not books you need, it's some of the things that are in books. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”
― Fahrenheit 451
It is not books you need, it's some of the things that are in books. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”
― Fahrenheit 451
“You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. 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.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
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