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Quotes from Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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1 He looked at the old railroad tracks.
2 Never since its first use in tracking quarry has this incredible invention made a mistake.
3 The track that came out of the city and rusted across the land, through forests and woods, deserted now, by the river.
4 There aren't many of them, and I guess the government's never considered them a great enough danger to go in and track them down.
5 Even though practically everything's air-borne these days and most of the tracks are abandoned, the rails are still there, rusting.
6 We are model citizens, in our own special way; we walk the old tracks, we lie in the hills at night, and the city people let us be.
7 "Go on," said the woman, and Montag felt himself back away and away out the door, after Beatty, down the steps, across the lawn, where the path of kerosene lay like the track of some evil snail.
8 He looked at the river and the sky and the rusting track going back down to where the farms lay, where the barns stood full of hay, where a lot of people had walked by in the night on their way from the city.
9 Half an hour later, cold, and moving carefully on the tracks, fully aware of his entire body, his face, his mouth, his eyes stuffed with blackness, his ears stuffed with sound, his legs prickled with burrs and nettles, he saw the fire ahead.
10 I've heard there are still hobo camps all across the country, here and there; walking camps they call them, and if you keep walking far enough and keep an eye peeled, they say there's lots of old Harvard degrees on the tracks between here and Los Angeles.
11 And then the voices began and they were talking, and he could hear nothing of what the voices said, but the sound rose and fell quietly and the voices were turning the world over and looking at it; the voices knew the land and the trees and the city which lay down the track by the river.
12 There was a silence gathered all about that fire and the silence was in the men's faces, and time was there, time enough to sit by this rusting track under the trees, and look at the world and turn it over with the eyes, as if it were held to the center of the bonfire, a piece of steel these men were all shaping.