We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. So! A book is a…
Book 1953
Fahrenheit 451 quotes
About the book
Guy Montag is a fireman whose job is to burn books in a society that has banned them and replaced thought with wall-sized television. A meeting with a curious young neighbor makes him start to question his work and his life.
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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.
Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. … The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the…
Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.
'Stuff your eyes with wonder,' he said, 'live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal.'
It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books. … 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 magic is only in what books say…
If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. … Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely…