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. Let him forget there is such as thing as war. If the Governme...
Impossible, for how many people did you know that refracted your own light to you? People were more often - he searched for a smile,found one in his work - torches, blazing away until they whiffed out...
In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize.
In the sunlight, snow melts, crystals evaporate into a steam, into nothing. In the firelight, vapors dance and vanish. In the core of a volcano, fragile things burst and disappear. The girl, in the gu...
In your life, did you know enthusiasm?' If the answer is yes you enter the sky. If no, you fall to burn in the pit.
Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts.
Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to start them?
Isi purta fericirea ca pe o masca, iar fata aceea fugise cu masca prin curtea casei ei, si nu era chip sa se duca sa i-o ceara inapoi.
It fills me with such feelings that I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
It had moved in the midnight waters of space like a pale sea leviathan; it had passed the ancient moon and thrown itself onward into one nothingness following another.
It is not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books...take it where you can find it, in old phonograph records, old motion pictures, and in old friends; look for it in nature and...
It wouldn’t be right, the first night on Mars, to make a loud noise, to introduce a strange, silly bright thing like a stove. It would be a kind of imported blasphemy. There’d be time for that later;...
It's always someone else's husband dies, they say.
Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry.
Now, sucking all the night into his open mouth and blowing it out pale, with all the blackness left heavily inside himself...
Oh, they don't miss me, she said. I'm anti-social, they say. I don't mix. It's so strange. I'm very social indeed. It all depends on what you mean by social, doesn't it? Social to me means talking abo...
On the front porch where she had come to weigh them quietly with her eyes, her quietness a condemnation, the woman stood motionless.
Once in a lifetime anyway, it's nice to make a mistake if you think it'll do somebody some good, she
Once upon a time there were two cities within a city. One was light and one was dark. One moved restlessly all day while the other never stirred. One was warm and filled with ever-changing lights. One...
One last thing, said Beatty. At least once in his career, every fireman gets an itch. What do the books say, he wonders. Oh, to scratch that itch, eh? Well, Montag, take my word for it, I’ve had to re...
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