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Kirsten Corley

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Jersey Girl born and raised. Love for reading and writing.
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6,503 quotes curated by Kirsten Corley:

“That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and WORTH the doing.”
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
Tagged: Faith, strength, Worth It
“That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.”
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
Tagged: Dying, Good, Risk
“Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me, I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough it'll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read.”
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
Tagged: Listening, Read
“I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.”
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
Tagged: World, Holding
“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.”
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
Tagged: Change, impact
“A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?”
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
Tagged: Loaded Gun, Target
“But 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.”
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
Tagged: Listen
“And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn’t crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again, he would never carve another piece of wood or help us raise doves and pigeons in the backyard or play the violin the way he did, or tell us jokes the way he did. He was part of us and when he died, all the actions stopped dead and there was no one to do them the way he did. He was individual. He was an important man. I’ve never gotten over his death. Often I think what wonderful carvings never came to birth because he died. How many jokes are missing from the world, and how many homing pigeons untouched by his hands? He shaped the world. He did things to the world. The world was bankrupted of ten million fine actions the night he passed on.”
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
Tagged: Death, Mourning, Sad
“The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
Tagged: Books, Book Lover
“Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
Tagged: saving, Save Yourself