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Quotes from Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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1 The river bobbled him along gently.
2 The river had moved him toward shore.
3 The smell of the river was cool and like a solid rain.
4 He ran very fast away from the house, down toward the river.
5 He felt the river pull him further on its way, into darkness.
6 He tossed his own clothing into the river and watched it swept away.
7 He was three hundred yards downstream when the Hound reached the river.
8 Then, holding the suitcase, he walked out in the river until there was no bottom and he was swept away in the dark.
9 A storm of light fell upon the river and Montag dived under the great illumination as if the sun had broken the clouds.
10 After a long time of floating on the land and a short time of floating in the river he knew why he must never burn again in his life.
11 You'd better head for the river if you can, follow along it, and if you can hit the old railroad lines going out into the country, follow them.
12 Now there was only the cold river and Montag floating in a sudden peacefulness, away from the city and the lights and the chase, away from everything.
13 The river was very real; it held him comfortably and gave him the time at last, the leisure, to consider this month, this year, and a lifetime of years.
14 It seemed like a boatless river frozen there in the raw light of the high white arc lamps; you could drown trying to cross it, he felt; it was too wide, it was too open.
15 He floated on his back when the valise filled and sank; the river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper.
16 The air over and above the vast concrete river trembled with the warmth of Montag's body alone; it was incredible how he felt his temperature could cause the whole immediate world to vibrate.
17 With an effort, Montag reminded himself again that this was no fictional episode to be watched on his run to the river; it was in actuality his own chess game he was witnessing, move by move.
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