
And I’d never even thought that thought before… A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. “Last night I thought about all the kerosene I’ve used in the past ten years. ~Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, (Character: Guy Montag), “There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house there must be something there. ~Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, (Character: the old woman who refused to give up her books), ~Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, (Characters: Clarisse McClellan and Guy Montag), Pages 5, 6ġ7 Clarisse McClellan Quotes With Page Numbers

“Do you ever read any of the books you burn?” ~Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, (Character: Montag as the narrator), While the books went up in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning.” He wanted above all, like the old joke, to shove a marshmallow on a stick in the furnace, while the flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch and lawn of the house. With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black.

With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. How are things similar or different in our world today?ħ5 Fahrenheit 451 Quotes With Page Numbersįahrenheit 451 Quotes About Books With Page Numbers Unaware of the dangers of nuclear war because they haven’t learned from history.

If someone finds out you have books, firemen will burn them, and you will go to prison.īecause no one can learn from books, they trust the media.

Books are forbidden in this dystopian world. These Fahrenheit 451 quotes about books help us see the danger of censorship.įahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, is about firemen starting fires.
