EARTH in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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1 The sun and every clock on the earth.
2 Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore.
3 Even fireworks, for all their prettiness, come from the chemistry of the earth.
4 The people were pounded into submission; they did not run, there was no place to run; the great air train fell down its shaft in the earth.
5 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.
6 In the days to follow, and in the nights when there was no moon and in the nights when there was a very bright moon shining on the earth, the old man would go on with this talking and this talking, drop by drop, stone by stone, flake by flake.
7 And then, to the sound of death, the sound of the jets cutting the sky in two black pieces beyond the horizon, he would lie in the loft, hidden and safe, watching those strange new stars over the rim of the earth, fleeing from the soft color of dawn.
8 He said it over to himself silently, lying flat to the trembling earth, he said the words of it many times and they were perfect without trying and there was no Denham's Dentifrice anywhere, it was just the Preacher by himself, standing there in his mind, looking at him.
9 He walked out of the fire station and along the midnight street toward the subway where the silent air-propelled train slid soundlessly down its lubricated flue in the earth and let him out with a great puff of warm air onto the cream-tiled escalator rising to the suburb.