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"The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive."
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"We do what we enjoy, even if it is act of evil."
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"And there, right in the middle of it, I find 'Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.' There is no slightest suggestion that we are offered forgiveness on any other terms. It is made perfectly clear that if we do not forgive we shall not be forgiven."
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"When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him."
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"Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are."
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"The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began."
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"A person is what he says and does, that's how you learn whether his reputation was earned or manufactured."
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"Satan is never your well-wisher. Get the pleasure of making him annoyed on you by doing good deeds."
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"The proper name for the thing is modesty; but as we live in an age of prejudice and must not call things by their right names, we will yield to a more modern nomenclature and call it dignity."
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"How can I blame others, when I cannot stop myself committing crimes?"
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"And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right."
Creativity
"Let the war turn off the families. Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge."
Politics
"But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again."
Soul
"Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed."
Creativity
"I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down?"
Faith
"Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change. Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy."
Knowledge
"The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Time-the big grains of centuries, and the small grains of years, and the tiny grains of hours and minutes-and the clock pulverized them, slid Time silently out in all directions in a fine pollen, carried by cold winds to blanket the town like dust, everywhere. Spores from that clock lodged in your flesh to wrinkle it, to grow bones to monstrous size, to burst feet from shoes like turnips. Oh, how that great machine dispensed Time in blowing weathers."
Time
"Now let's take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes of the dog-lovers, the cat-lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second-generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon or Mexico. The people in this book, this play, this TV serial are not meant to represent any actual painters, cartographers, mechanics anywhere. The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy, remember that!"
Society
"How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever. So what do we do? We men turn terribly mean, because we can't hold to the world or ourselves or anything. We are blind to continuity, all breaks down, falls, melts, stops, rots, or runs away. So, since we cannot shape Time, where does that leave men? Sleepless. Staring."
Philosophy
"Without the library, you have no civilization."
Culture
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