Ray Bradbury: Frasi in inglese (pagina 9)

Origine: The Martian Chronicles

Origine: Fahrenheit 451

Origine: Fahrenheit 451

Origine: Fahrenheit 451 (1953), Coda (1979)
Contesto: For, let's face it, digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones. Laurence Sterne said it once: Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Restore them to the writer - he steps forth like a bridegroom, bids them all-hail, brings in variety and forbids the appetite to fail.

Origine: Dandelion Wine (1957), p. 142
Contesto: “I don’t know,” he admitted.
“Well.” She started pouring tea. “To start things off, what do you think of the world?”
“I don’t know anything.”
“The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you’re seventeen you know everything. When you’re twenty-seven if you still know everything you’re still seventeen.”
“You seem to have learned quite a lot over the years.”
“It is the privilege of old people to seem to know everything. But it’s an act and a mask, like every other act and mask. Between ourselves, we old ones wink at each other and smile, saying, How do you like my mask, my act, my certainty? Isn’t life a play? Don’t I play it well?”
They both laughed quietly.

Origine: Dandelion Wine

Origine: Fahrenheit 451

Origine: Fahrenheit 451

Origine: Zen in the Art of Writing

Origine: Dandelion Wine

Origine: Zen in the Art of Writing

Origine: Something Wicked This Way Comes

Origine: Fahrenheit 451

Origine: The Illustrated Man

Origine: The Martian Chronicles

Origine: Fahrenheit 451