1. “’Do you ever read any of the books you burn?’ He laughed. ‘That’s against the law!’” (5)

English ISU Quotes

Before Knowledge:

1. “’Do you ever read any of the books you burn?’ He laughed. ‘That’s against the law!’” (5)

2. “Darkness. He was not happy. He was not happy. He said the words to himself. He the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on the door and ask for it back.” (9)

3. “It’s really fun. It’ll be even more fun when we can afford to have the fourth wall installed. How long you figure before we save up and get the worth wall torn out and a forth wall-TV put in? It’s only two thousand dollars.” (18)

4. ”You’re not like the others. I’ve seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon, last night. The others would never do that The others would walk off and leave me talking. OR threaten me. No one has time any more for anyone else.” (21)

5. “ ‘I-I’ve been thinking. About the fire last week. About the man whose library we fixed. What happened to him?’ ‘They took him screaming off to the asylum.’ ‘He wasn’t insane. Any man’s insane who thinks he can fool the government and us.’” (31)

6. “’I’ve tried to imagine,’ said Montag, just how it would feel. I mean, to have firemen burn our houses and ou r books.’ ‘We haven’t any books.’ ‘But if we did have some.’ ‘You got some?’ Beatty blinked slowly. ‘No.’ Montag gazed beyond them to the wall with the typed lists of a million forbidden books. Their names leapt in fire, burning down the years under his axe and his hose which sprayed not water but kerosene. (31)

7. “The police went first and adhesive-taped the victim’s mouth and bandaged him off into their glittering beetle cars, so when you arrived you found an empty house. You weren’t hurting anyone, you were hurting only things! And since things really couldn’t be hurt since things felt nothing, and things don’t scream or whimper, as this woman might begin to scream and cry out, there was nothing to tease your conscience later. You were simply cleaning up.” (34)

8. “The woman knelt among the books, touching the drenched leather and cardboard, reading the gilt titles with her fingers while her eyes accused Montag.” (35)

9. recognized this as the true state of affairs. He wore his happiness like a mask and

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