Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes
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“Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.”
Source: The October Country
Source: The Martian Chronicles
Source: Fahrenheit 451 (1953), Coda (1979)
Context: For, let's face it, digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones. Laurence Sterne said it once: Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Restore them to the writer - he steps forth like a bridegroom, bids them all-hail, brings in variety and forbids the appetite to fail.
Source: Dandelion Wine (1957), p. 142
Context: “I don’t know,” he admitted.
“Well.” She started pouring tea. “To start things off, what do you think of the world?”
“I don’t know anything.”
“The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you’re seventeen you know everything. When you’re twenty-seven if you still know everything you’re still seventeen.”
“You seem to have learned quite a lot over the years.”
“It is the privilege of old people to seem to know everything. But it’s an act and a mask, like every other act and mask. Between ourselves, we old ones wink at each other and smile, saying, How do you like my mask, my act, my certainty? Isn’t life a play? Don’t I play it well?”
They both laughed quietly.
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth”
Source: Zen in the Art of Writing
“Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.”
Source: Zen in the Art of Writing
Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes
“The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.”
Source: The Illustrated Man