“If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you, and you'll never learn.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
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Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury, first published in 1953. Often regarded as one of his best works, the novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found. The book's tagline explains the title: "Fahrenheit 451 – the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns..." The lead character, Guy Montag, is a fireman who becomes disillusioned with his role of censoring literature and destroying knowledge, eventually quitting his job and committing himself to the preservation of literary and cultural writings.
“Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.”
Brown Daily Herald (24 March 1995)
Variant: Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.
Source: Fahrenheit 451
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
Source: Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
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.
“Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
