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Quotes from Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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1 But now tonight, he slowed almost to a stop.
2 Montag felt the slow stir of words, the slow simmer.
3 You could hear them breathing fast, then slower, then slow.
4 Nineteenth-century man with his horses, dogs, carts, slow motion.
5 It drank up the green matter that flowed to the top in a slow boil.
6 But slow now slow, quiet, don't turn, don't look, don't seem concerned.
7 Under the doorsill, a slow, probing sniff, an exhalation of electric steam.
8 Before he reached the corner, however, he slowed as if a wind had sprung up from nowhere, as if someone had called his name.
9 Some were missing and he knew that she had started on her own slow process of dispersing the dynamite in her house, stick by stick.
10 Captain Beatty, his poker cards in one pink hand, walked with exaggerated slowness to the phone and ripped out the address when the report was finished.
11 Far down the boulevard, four blocks way, the beetle had slowed, spun about on two wheels, and was now racing back, slanting over on the wrong side of the street, picking up speed.
12 And the men with the cigarettes in their straight-lined mouths, the men with the eyes of puff adders, took up their load of machine and tube, their case of liquid melancholy and the slow dark sludge of nameless stuff, and strolled out the door.
13 Perhaps the bombs were there, and the jets, ten miles, five miles, one mile up, for the merest instant, like grain thrown over the heavens by a great sowing hand, and the bombs drifting with dreadful swiftness, yet sudden slowness, down upon the morning city they had left behind.