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You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don't. Th...more

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Without the library, you have no civilization.

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We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

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To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.

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There were differences between memories and dreams. He had only dreams of things he had wanted to do, while Lespere had memories of things done and ac...more

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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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Now let's take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes of the dog-lovers, ...more

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It was a pleasure to burn.It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with...more

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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...more

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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...more

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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...more

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But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us ...more

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Fiction gives us empathy: It puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us ...more

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You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by.