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Fahrenheit 451 Quotes

By Esther Lombardi, About.com

Fahrenheit 451 is a novel by Ray Bradbury. The work is one of the most beloved works by Bradbury, but it's also controversial. What would you do if you couldn't read? Here are a few quotes.
  • "There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing."
    - Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, Part 1

  • "I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it'll make sense."
    - Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, Part 2

  • "What traitors books can be! You think they're backing you up, and they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and there you are, lost in the middle of the moor, in a great welter of nouns and verbs and adjectives."
    - Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, Part 2

  • "Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences."
    - Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, Part 3

  • "The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen and the sun burnt Time, that meant that everything burnt!"
    - Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, Part 3

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