Ето, в това е нещастието на вашето поколение — възкликна дядото. — Слушай, Бил, срам ме е заради тебе, и ти си ми бил журналист! Изхвърляте от тоя живот всичко, което е сложено в него, за да му дава в...
Есть преступления хуже, чем сжигать книги.Например - не читать их.
Единственото нещо, което с истинско удоволствие бе докосвала, слушала и съзерцавала, тя не беше успяла да скъта.
Един здрав нощен сън, един здрав десетминутен рев, един двоен шоколадов сладолед, или трите заедно са идеално лекарство, Дъг.
Дядо ми казваше, че всеки трябва да остави нещо след себе си, когато умре. Дете или книга, или картина, или къща, или стена, която е построил, или чифт обувки, които е изработил. Или пък градина, коят...
Без досок и гвоздей дом не построишь, и если не хочешь, чтобы дом был построен, спрячь доски и гвозди. Если не хочешь, чтобы человек расстраивался из-за политики, не давай ему возможности видеть обе с...
А какво ви разтърси? Какво изтръгна факела от ръцете ви?- Не зная. Имаме всичко необходимо, за да бъдем щастливи, но не сме щастливи. Нещо липсва.
«Считать метафору доказательством, поток праздных слов источником истины, а себя оракулом – это заблуждение, свойственное всем нам», – как сказал однажды мистер Поль Валери.
Stone. I hate being clever, thought the captain, when you don’t really feel clever and don’t want to be clever. To sneak around and make plans and feel big about making them. I hate this feeling of th...
And it was suddenly so very wrong that he had begun to cry, not at death but at the thought of not crying at death, a silly empty man near a silly empty woman, while the hungry snake made her still mo...
[He] was always here to offer cups of good clear Walden Pond, or shout down the deep well of Shakespeare and listen, with satisfaction, for echoes. Here the lion and the hartebeest lay together, here...
You see? Granger turned to Montag. Grandfather's been dead for all these years, but if you lifted my skull, by God, in the convolutions of my brain you'd find the big ridges of his thumbprint. He touc...
You can’t have one without the other. No fantasy, no reality. No studies concerning loss, no gain. No imagination, no will. No impossible dream: No possible solutions.
Y por último, si le sirve de algo, recuérdeme como un neurótico que enloqueció un día de verano y que nunca recobró la razón. Así será más fácil para usted.
Why love the woman who is your wife? Her nose breathes in the air of a world that I know; therefore I love that nose. Her ears hear music I might sing half the night through; therefore I love her ears...
Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.
Where strangers scanned each other's faces and found yesterday's sunrise instead of tomorrow's midnight.
Whenever I am very happy or very sad or very embarrassed, I cram my mouth with sweets and litter the breezeway with discards.Когда я очень счастлив, или очень огорчен, или смущен, я всегда набиваю рот...
When you strip all the clothes away and the doodads, you have two human beings who were either happy or unhappy together, and we have no complaints.
When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How could they!--when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Ca...