"The sun burnt every day. It burnt time."
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"Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about."
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"The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking."
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"First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him."
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"My job is to help you fall in love."
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"I am Plato's Republic. Mr. Simmons is Marcus. I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book, Gulliver's Travels! And this other fellow is Charles Darwin, and-this one is Schopenhauer, and this one is Einstein, and this one here at my elbow is Mr. Albert Schweitzer, a very kind philosopher indeed. Here we all are, Montag. Aristophanes and Mahatma Gandhi and Gautama Buddha and Confucius and Thomas Love Peacock and Thomas Jefferson and Mr. Lincoln, if you please. We are also Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John."
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"No person ever died that had a family."
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"A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt."
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"And suddenly everything, absolutely everything, was there."
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"Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do."
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"God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other."
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"How to feel your way toward something honest, hidden under the trapdoor on the top of your skull."
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"It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all."
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"The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen, and the sun burnt Time, that meant everything burnt!"
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"A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery."
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"Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers.""
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"You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life."
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"In our time the search for extraterrestrial life will eventually change our laws, our religions, our philosophies, our arts, our recreations, as well as our sciences. Space, the mirror, waits for life to come look for itself there."
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"My characters talk to one another, and when it reaches a certain pitch of excitement I jump out of bed and run and trap them before they are gone."
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"You must never name the goal. You must never tell us the target you're hitting for. You must automatically go toward it without ever naming it."
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