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Quotes from Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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1 "Four days ago," he said, quietly, lying there.
2 Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work.
3 When he was done he looked down upon some twenty books lying at his wife's feet.
4 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.
5 And he thought of her lying on the bed with the two technicians standing straight over her, not bent with concern, but only standing straight, arms folded.
6 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.
7 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.
8 He would lie back and look out the loft window, very late in the night and see the lights go out in the farmhouse itself, until a very young and beautiful woman would sit in an unlit window, braiding her hair.
9 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.
10 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.