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by Ray Bradbury
About 22 pages (6,562 words)
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Quote 1: "It [is] a pleasure to burn. It [is] special to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed." Part 1, pg. 3

Quote 2: "'parlor walls'" Part 1, pg. 9

Quote 3: "relatives" Part 1, pg. 49

Quote 4: "'There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing.'" Part 1, pg. 51

Quote 5: "Nobody listens any more. . . . I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it'll make sense." Part 2, pg. 82

Quote 6: "What traitors books can be! You think they're backing you up, and they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and there you are, lost in the middle of the moor, in a great welter of nouns and verbs and adjectives." Part 2, pg. 107

Quote 7: "Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences." Part 3, Og. 115

Quote 8: "The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen and the sun burnt Time, that meant that everything burnt!" Part 3, pg. 141

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