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“They both savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were ignorant of only ordinary things.”
― Equal Rites
― Equal Rites
“The process in which a writer is compelled to counterfeit his true feelings is exactly the opposite of that which the man of society is compelled to counterfeit his. The artist disguises in order to reveal; the man of society disguises in order to conceal”
― Forbidden Colors
― Forbidden Colors
“Twelve scrap books, telling us what wonderful or horrible or mediocre people we were”
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“I shall tell you what I believe. I believe God is a librarian. I believe that literature is holy...it is that best part of our souls that we break off and give each other, and God has a special dispensation for it, angels to guard its making and its preservation.”
― Chasing Shakespeares
― Chasing Shakespeares
“We went right on insulting the dead. We went right on spitting on the graves of all the poor ones who died before us...and some day we'll remember so much that we'll build the biggest Goddamn steam-shovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in and cover it up”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
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