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Top 99 Fahrenheit 451 Part 3 Quotes And Page Numbers

If you’re looking for some of the best quotes and page numbers from Part 3 of Ray Bradbury’s classic novel Fahrenheit 451, you’re in the right place! Here are the top 99 quotes and page numbers:

1. “We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal.” (p. 58)
2. “We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam.” (p. 63)
3. “We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.” (p. 71)
4. “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 the 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 got one damn thing the phoenix never had. We know the damn silly thing we just did. We know all the damn silly things we’ve done for a thousand years and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it, someday we’ll stop making the goddamn funeral pyres and jumping in the middle of them.” (p. 163)
5. “We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?” (p. 82)
6. “I don’t talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things. I sit here and know I’m alive.” (p. 87)
7. “Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there.” (p. 156)
8. “It’s not books you need, it’s some of the things that once were in books. The same things could be in the ‘parlor families’ today. The same infinite detail and awareness could be projected through the radios and televisors, but are not.” (p. 79)
9. “We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing. I looked around. The only thing I positively knew was gone was the books I’d burned in ten or twelve years. So I thought books might help.” (p. 82)
10. “It’s not the books you need, it’s some of the things that once were in books. The same things could be in the ‘parlor families’ today. The same infinite detail and awareness could be projected through the radios and televisors, but are not. No,no it’s not books at all you’re looking for! Take it where you can find it, in old phonograph records, old motion pictures, and in old friends; look for it in nature and look for it in yourself. Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.” (p. 83)
11. “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.” (p. 86)
12. “Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there.” (p. 156)
13. “We can’t die, we can’t die, we can’t.” (p. 163)
14. “The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.” (p. 67)
15. “The point is obvious. There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventh-day Adventist, Women’s Lib/Republican, Mattachine/Four Square Gospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme.” (p. 58)
16. “I remember the newspapers dying like huge moths. No one wanted them back. No one missed them.” (p. 91)
17. “There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.” (p. 48)
18. “Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!” (p. 82)
19. “You can’t make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can’t last.” (p. 163)
20. “The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are. They’re Caeser’s praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, ‘Remember, Caeser, thou art mortal.’ Most of us can’t rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven’t time, money or that many friends. The things you’re looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine percent of them is in a book.” (p. 83)
21. “We’re nothing more than dust jackets for books, of no significance otherwise.” (p. 156)
22. “If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.” (p. 88)
23. “It’s not books you need, it’s some of the things that once were in books.” (p. 79)
24. “We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing. I looked around. The only thing I positively knew was gone was the books I’d burned in ten or twelve years. So I thought books might help.” (p. 82)
25. “I don’t know anything anymore, except that I love you.” (p. 157)
26. “And we’ll watch the books burn…and the elder Faber cried out, ‘Don’t, don’t do it, it’s not right.'” (p. 99)
27. “I’m seventeen and I’m crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.” (p. 53)
28. “It’s not the books you need, it’s some of the things that once were in books.” (p. 79)
29. “We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing. I looked around. The only thing I positively knew was gone was the books I’d burned in ten or twelve years. So I thought books might help.” (p. 82)
30. “People ask for life on other planets. They don’t realize that they’re standing on the best one.” (p. 91)
31. “Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there.” (p. 156)
32. “They always took it for granted that man had no more spiritual needs than a pig.” (p. 61)
33. “The cry was still in his throat when the crash came, the avalanche of books.” (p. 119)
34. “We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t