~Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, about: fire, ignorance (Characters: Clarisse McClellan and Guy Montag), I heard once that a long time ago houses used to burn by accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames.” Houses have always been fireproof, take my word for it.” “They walked still farther and the girl said, “Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to start them?” ~Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, about: fire, censorship, ignorance (Characters: Guy Montag), įahrenheit 451 Fire Quotes With Page Numbers “Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn ’em to ashes, then burn the ashes. ~Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, about books, fire, censorship, ignorance (Characters: Clarisse McClellan and Guy Montag), Pages 5, 6Ģ0 Fahrenheit 451 Quotes About Censorship “Do you ever read any of the books you burn?” ~Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, about Clarisse McClellan (Characters: Guy Montag as the narrator), It was not the hysterical light of electricity but-what? But the strangely comfortable and rare and gently flattering light of the candle.” “Her face, turned to him now, was fragile milk crystal with a soft and constant light in it. ~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? Fahrenheit 451 Quotes Part 1: The Hearth and the Salamander
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