When a man talks from the heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.
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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.
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There must be something in books, things we can't imagine.
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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 heade...
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The important thing for you to remember, Montag, is we're the Happiness Boys, the Dixie Duo, you and I and the others. We stand against the small tide...
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Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The ma...
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You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by.
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But that's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very we...
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Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.
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Happiness is important. Fun is everything.
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I know, i know. You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was younger I shoved my ignorance in people's fac...
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It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and min...
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He felt as if he had left a stage behind and many actors. He felt as if he had left the great seance and all the murmuring ghosts. He was moving from ...
