BOOK STARTERS VOL.28   ( FAHRENHEIT 451 )   ( RAY BRADBURY ) Â
â Why is it that I feel Iâve known you so many years? â
â Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if youâd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. Itâs more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. â
â It doesnât matter what you do, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something thatâs like you after you take your hands away. â
â We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real? â
â There must be something, something we canât imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You donât stay for nothing. â
â If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and youâll never learn. â
â If you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore. â
â You canât make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. â
â It was a pleasure to burn. â
â Iâm antisocial, they say. I donât mix. Itâs so strange. Iâm very social indeed. It all depends on what you mean by social, doesnât it? â
â Being with people is nice. But I donât think itâs social to get a bunch of people together and then not let them talk, do you? â
â Do you notice how people hurt each other nowadays? â
â Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? â
â I donât talk things. I talk the meaning of things. â
â Iâll hold on to the world tight some day. Iâve got one finger on it now; thatâs a beginning. â
â I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough itâll make sense. â
â Thatâs the good part of dying; when youâve nothing to lose, you run any risk you want. â
â Someday weâll build the biggest goddamn steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in it and cover it up. â
â Youâre not like the others. Iâve seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. â
â Youâre afraid of making mistakes. Donât be. Mistakes can be profited by. â
â When they give you lined paper, write the other way. â
â The sun burnt every day. It burnt time. â
â We have everything we need to be happy but we arenât happy. Something is missing. â
â I feel Iâm doing what I shouldâve done a lifetime ago. â
â Iâm not afraid. Maybe itâs because Iâm doing the right thing at last. Maybe itâs because Iâve done a rash thing and donât want to look the coward to you. â
â Good God, who were those men? I never saw them before in my life! â
â How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you? â
â It must be right. It seems so right. â
â To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. â
â Itâs my game. And no one can help me. Not even you. â














