No matter how hard you try to be what you once were you can only be what you are here and now. Time hypnotizes. When you’re nine, you think you’ve always been nine years old and will always be. When y...
Nimeni nu mai are timp și pentru ceilalți.
My uncle says the architects got rid of the front porches because they didn't look well. But my uncle says that was merely rationalizing it; the real reason, hidden underneath, might be they didn't wa...
My heart stopped talking because it didn’t want to talk anymore for a while.
Mr. Shaw fixed his eyes on a star some twenty light-years away. What are we? he asked. Why, we are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Fo...
Mr. Moundshroud, who are YOU? And Mr. Moundshroud, way up there on the roof, sent his thoughts back: I think you know, boy, I think you know. Will we meet again, Mr. Moundshroud? Many years from now,...
Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going, a long time back. I said nothing. I’m one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the ‘g...
Most of us can’t rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven’t time, money or that many friends. The things you’re looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way...
Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for... are in the world, but the only way the a...
Montag wanted to fly near the sun and now that he's burnt his damn wings, he wonders why
Mistakes can be profited by Man, when i was young I showed my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point...
Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!
Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young. She
Los libros están para recordarnos lo tontos y estúpidos que fuimos.
Llena tus ojos de ilusión -decía-. Vive como si fueras a morir dentro de diez segundos. Ve al mundo. Es más fantástico que cualquier sueño real o imaginario. No pidas garantías, no pidas seguridad. Nu...
Like a fall of timber he chopped himself to bed.
Learning to
La magia reside solamente en aquello que los libros dicen; en cómo cosen los harapos del universo para darnos una nueva vestidura.
I’m really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don’t remember!
It’s not books you need, it’s some of the things that once were in books. The same things could be in the ‘parlor families’ today. The same infinite detail and awareness could be projected through the...