Fahrenheit 451

“Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of ‘facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely ‘brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving.”

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“The mind drinks less and less.”

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“This age thinks better of a gilded fool than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school!”

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“With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word “intellectual” became the swear word it deserved to be.

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“There's more than one way to burn a book. and the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”

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“I'm so mad I could spit!”