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Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me it means texture. This book...more

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A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of a well-...more

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The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

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No, no, it's not the books you are looking for! Take it where you can find it, in old phonograph records, in old motion pictures, and in old friends; ...more

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Silence. Montag sat like a carved white stone. The echo of the final hammer on his skull died slowly away into the black cavern where Faber waited for...more

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..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

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It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes.

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How must it have felt, Pikes, the night they seized your films, like entrails yanked from the camera, out of your guts, clutching them in coils and wa...more

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They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or another, political bias, ...more

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Sleeping beauty awoke at the kiss of a scientist and expired at the fatal puncture of his syringe.

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Everything that was not so must go. All the beautiful literary lies and flights of fancy must be shot in mid-air! So they lined them up against a libr...more

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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

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I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunsh...more

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So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.

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The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope that your joy will seek and find others in t...more