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Ray Bradbury
A dystopian novel set in a future American society where books are banned and firemen burn any that are found. The narrative follows Guy Montag, a fireman who begins to question his role and secretly reads confiscated books, exploring themes of censorship, mass media, and intellectual freedom.
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What this book knows
A society that burns books burns itself: ignorance enforced as comfort is the slow extinction of what makes us human.
obedience-and-authority
They were given the new job, as custodians of our peace of mind, the focus of our rightful dread of being inferior; official censors, judges, and executors.
F4-RC-034We've lowered the kindergarten age year after year until now we're almost snatching them from the cradle.
F4-RC-035They didn't want people sitting like that, doing nothing, rocking, talking; that was the wrong kind of social life. People talked too much.
F4-RC-037mind-and-cognition
It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books. The same things could be in the 'family'.
F4-RC-047'I need you to teach me.' 'All right, all right.' Montag put the book down and began to unwad the crumpled paper.
F4-RC-051self-and-identity
These were the hands that had acted on their own, no part of him, here was where the conscience first manifested itself to snatch books.
F4-RC-062Illuminates
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