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Quotes from Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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1 He began throwing dust and dirt in the fire.
2 Ten minutes after death a man's a speck of black dust.
3 We're nothing more than dust jackets for books, of no significance otherwise.
4 Montag watched the great dust settle and the great silence move down upon their world.
5 There must have been a billion leaves on the land; he waded in them, a dry river smelling of hot cloves and warm dust.
6 And then when the startled dust had settled down about Montag's mind, Faber began, softly, "All right, he's had his say."
7 They would have killed me, thought Montag, swaying, the air still torn and stirring about him in dust, touching his bruised cheek.
8 She made the empty rooms roar with accusation and shake down a fine dust of guilt that was sucked in their nostrils as they plunged about.
9 Silence fell down in the sifting dust, and all the leisure they might need to look around, to gather the reality of this day into their senses.
10 He felt that the stars had been pulverized by the sound of the black jets and that in the morning the earth would be covered with their dust like a strange snow.
11 And lying there it seemed that he saw every single grain of dust and every blade of grass and that he heard every cry and shout and whisper going up in the world now.
12 Montag, lying there, eyes gritted shut with dust, a fine wet cement of dust in his now shut mouth, gasping and crying, now thought again, I remember, I remember, I remember something else.
13 The concussion knocked the air across and down the river, turned the men over like dominoes in a line, blew the water in lifting sprays, and blew the dust and made the trees above them mourn with a great wind passing away south.
14 The way the clouds moved aside and came back, and the way the stars looked, a million of them swimming between the clouds, like the enemy disks, and the feeling that the sky might fall upon the city and turn it to chalk dust, and the moon go up in red fire; that was how the night felt.