![]() ![]() ![]() ~Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, about: knowledge (Character: Montag, thoughts told by narrator), “One time, as a child in a power failure, his mother had found and lit a last candle and there had been a brief hour of rediscovery, of such illumination that space lost its vast dimensions and drew comfortably around them, and they, mother and son, alone, transformed, hoping that the power might not come on again too soon…” ![]() ~Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, humor, (Character: Clarisse McClellan), Ĭlarisse McClellan Quotes With Page Numbers When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.” My uncle says the two always go together. ~Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, about: fire, (Character: Guy Montag), “Kerosene,” he said, because the silence had lengthened, “is nothing but perfume to me.” ~Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, about: fire, books, (Character: Montag, thoughts told by narrator), įurther Reading: Fahrenheit 451 Quotes About Books ![]() While the books went up in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning.” He wanted above all, like the old joke, to shove a marshmallow on a stick in the furnace, while the flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch and lawn of the house. With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. What are some important quotes from Fahrenheit 451 Part 1? The world was bankrupted of ten million fine actions the night he passed on.Fahrenheit 451 Quotes Part 1: The Hearth and the Salamander How many jokes are missing from the world, and how many homing pigeons untouched by his hands. Often I think, what wonderful carvings never came to birth because he died. He was part of us and when he died, all the actions stopped dead and there was no one to do them just the way he did. I cried because he would never do them again, he would never carve another piece of wood or help us raise doves and pigeons in the back yard or play the violin the way he did, or tell us the jokes the way he did. And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn’t crying for him at all, but for the things he did. He was also a very kind man who had a lot of love to give the world, and he helped clean up the slum in our town and he made toys for us and he did a million things in his lifetime he was always busy with his hands. When I was a boy my grandfather died, and he was a sculptor. And at the museums, have you ever been? All abstract. And most of the time in the cafes they have the jokeboxes on and the same jokes most of the time, or the musical wall lit and all the coloured patterns running up and down, but it's only colour and all abstract. They name a lot of cars or clothes or swimming-pools mostly and say how swell! But they all say the same things and nobody says anything different from anyone else. Or I listen at soda fountains, and doyou know what?""What?""People don't talk about anything.""Oh, they must!""No, not anything. As long as everyone has ten thousand insurance everyone's happy.Sometimes I sneak around and listen in subways. Sometimes I even go to the Fun Parks and ride in the jet cars when they race on the edge of town at midnight and the police don't care as long as they're insured. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they're going. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. But most of all," she said, "I like to watch people. ![]()
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