Ray Bradbury słynne cytaty
„Czy wszyscy umierający ludzie czują się tak, jakby nigdy nie żyli?”
Ilustrowany człowiek i inne opowiadania (2003)
„Nie należy sądzić książki po obwolucie.”
451 stopni Fahrenheita
Los Angeles, 11 lipca 1974.
Henry Kuttner – niedoceniony mistrz
Ilustrowany człowiek i inne opowiadania (2003)
„451° Fahrenheita – to temperatura, w której papier zaczyna się tlić i płonie…”
motto książki.
451 stopni Fahrenheita
Ray Bradbury cytaty
Fahrenheit 451
Ilustrowany człowiek i inne opowiadania (2003)
Henry Kuttner – niedoceniony mistrz
Ray Bradbury: Cytaty po angielsku
“I’m really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don’t remember!”
Źródło: Dandelion Wine
“I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.”
Źródło: Fahrenheit 451
“Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.”
Źródło: The October Country
Źródło: Fahrenheit 451 (1953), Coda (1979)
Kontekst: 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.
Źródło: Dandelion Wine (1957), p. 142
Kontekst: “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.
“We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth”
Źródło: Zen in the Art of Writing
“Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.”
Źródło: Zen in the Art of Writing
“The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.”
Źródło: Fahrenheit 451
“Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.”
Źródło: The Illustrated Man
“Can't you recognize the human in the inhuman?”
Źródło: The Martian Chronicles
“Thinking little at all about nothing in particular.”
Źródło: Fahrenheit 451