Quotes from bookDandelion Wine
Dandelion Wine is a 1957 novel by Ray Bradbury, taking place in the summer of 1928 in the fictional town of Green Town, Illinois, based upon Bradbury's childhood home of Waukegan, Illinois. The novel developed from the short story "Dandelion Wine" which appeared in the June 1953 issue of Gourmet magazine.
“I’m really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don’t remember!”
Ray Bradbury book Dandelion Wine
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“And suddenly everything, absolutely everything, was there.”
Ray Bradbury book Dandelion Wine
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Ray Bradbury book Dandelion Wine
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.
“And then, quite suddenly, summer was over.”
Ray Bradbury book Dandelion Wine
Source: Dandelion Wine (1957), p. 235
