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He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.
“And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
“The girl? She was a time bomb. The family had been feeding her subconscious, I'm sure, from what I saw of her school record. She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why. That can be embarrassing. You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl's better off dead.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
“What you’re selling, Zig explained, is not the product. It’s a lifestyle. A philosophy. A dream. The product is irrelevant. Zig’s stock phrase (‘You can get everything you wish for out of life when you first help other people with what they wish for’) became Igor’s stock phrase too.”
― The Missing Cryptoqueen
― The Missing Cryptoqueen
“An hour of TV class, an hour of basketball or baseball or running, another hour of transcription history or painting pictures, and more sports, but do you know, we never ask questions, or at least most don't;”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
“Funerals are unhappy and pagan? Eliminate them, too. Five minutes after a person is dead he's on his way to the Big Flue, the Incinerators serviced by helicopters all over the country. Ten minutes after death a man's a speck of black dust. Let's not quibble over individuals with memoriams. Forget them. Burn them all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
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