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“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
“Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me, I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough it'll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
“How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?”
― The Allegory of the Cave
― The Allegory of the Cave
“The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.”
― The October Country
― The October Country
“I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there's no question of integration or intermarriage. It's just one human being marrying another human being or one human being living around and with another human being.”
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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