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If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.
Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
My wife says books aren’t ‘real.’ ”
“Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, ‘Hold on a moment.’ You play
God to it. But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when
you drop a seed in a TV parlor? It grows you any shape it wishes! It is an
environment as real as the world. It becomes and is the truth. Books can be beaten
down with reason.
From Fahrenheit 451
The television is 'real'. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn't time to protest, 'What nonsense!'.
From Fahrenheit 451
We're all watching each other, so there's no chance for censorship. The main problem is the idiot TV. If you watch local news, your head will turn to mush.
I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.
From Fahrenheit 451
Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things.
First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.
Mysteries abound where most we seek for answers.
It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.
From Fahrenheit 451
Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
Millie? Does the White Clown love you?
From Fahrenheit 451
If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.
Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
My wife says books aren’t ‘real.’ ”
“Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, ‘Hold on a moment.’ You play
God to it. But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when
you drop a seed in a TV parlor? It grows you any shape it wishes! It is an
environment as real as the world. It becomes and is the truth. Books can be beaten
down with reason.
From Fahrenheit 451
The television is 'real'. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn't time to protest, 'What nonsense!'.
From Fahrenheit 451
We're all watching each other, so there's no chance for censorship. The main problem is the idiot TV. If you watch local news, your head will turn to mush.
I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.
From Fahrenheit 451
Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things.
First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.
Mysteries abound where most we seek for answers.
It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.
From Fahrenheit 451
Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
Millie? Does the White Clown love you?
From Fahrenheit 451
If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.
Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
My wife says books aren’t ‘real.’ ”
“Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, ‘Hold on a moment.’ You play
God to it. But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when
you drop a seed in a TV parlor? It grows you any shape it wishes! It is an
environment as real as the world. It becomes and is the truth. Books can be beaten
down with reason.
From Fahrenheit 451
The television is 'real'. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn't time to protest, 'What nonsense!'.
From Fahrenheit 451
We're all watching each other, so there's no chance for censorship. The main problem is the idiot TV. If you watch local news, your head will turn to mush.
I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.
From Fahrenheit 451
Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things.
First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.
Mysteries abound where most we seek for answers.
It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.
From Fahrenheit 451
Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
Millie? Does the White Clown love you?
From Fahrenheit 451
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