"‘Number one: Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me it means texture. This book has pores. It has features. This book can go under the microscope. You’d find life under the glass, streaming past infinite profusion. The more pores, the more truthfully recorded details of life per square inch you can get on a sheet of paper, the more ‘literary’ you are. That’s my definition, anyway. Telling detail. Fresh detail. The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.’"
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Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451
"‘There was a silly damn bird called a phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a pyre and burnt himself up. He must have been first cousin to Man. But every time he burnt himself up he sprang out of the ashes, he got himself born all over again. And it looks like we’re doing the same thing, over and over, but we’ve go one damn thing the phoenix never had. We know about the damn silly things we’ve done for thousands of years and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it, someday we’ll stop making goddamn funeral pyres and jumping in the middle of them.’"
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Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451
"I feel like a contradiction
I’m a walking science-fiction
I don’t know which way to turn
I’ve got a lot to learn
I’ve got a lot of lot to learn"
I’m a walking science-fiction
I don’t know which way to turn
I’ve got a lot to learn
I’ve got a lot of lot to learn"
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Alligator Aviator Autopilot Antimatter, R.E.M. (via itseasyjusttolookaway)
"Please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming parentheses: (((())))"
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J.D. Salinger (via rusol)
"The trouble is,’ Teddy said, ‘most people don’t want to see things the way they are. They don’t even want to stop getting born and dying all the time, instead of stopping and staying with God, where it’s really nice.’ He reflected. ‘I never saw such a bunch of apple-eaters,’ he said. He shook his head."
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J. D. Salinger (via nowisalways27)
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“Nicholson flicked his cigarette ash off to one side. ‘I take it you have no emotions?’ he said.
Teddy reflected before answering. ‘If I do, I don’t remember when I ever used them,’ he said. “I don’t see what they’re good for.’”
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J. D. Salinger’s Teddy
"I do face facts. They’re lots easier to face than people, I can tell you."
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Meg Murry (Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time)
