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You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don't. Th...more

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Without the library, you have no civilization.

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There were differences between memories and dreams. He had only dreams of things he had wanted to do, while Lespere had memories of things done and ac...more

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There must be something in books, things we can't imagine.

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The black land slid by and he was going into the country among the hills. For the first time in a dozen years the stars were coming out above him, in ...more

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Don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heade...more

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The important thing for you to remember, Montag, is we're the Happiness Boys, the Dixie Duo, you and I and the others. We stand against the small tide...more

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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 ma...more

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You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by.

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But that's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very we...more

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Happiness is important. Fun is everything.

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I know, i know. You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was younger I shoved my ignorance in people's fac...more

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We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we're doing, you can say, ...more

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It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and min...more

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How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone want to talk about it! We've started and won two atom...more