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Источник: The Martian Chronicles

Источник: Fahrenheit 451

Источник: Fahrenheit 451

Источник: Fahrenheit 451 (1953), Coda (1979)
Контексте: 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.

Источник: Dandelion Wine (1957), p. 142
Контексте: “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.

Источник: Dandelion Wine

Источник: Fahrenheit 451

Источник: Fahrenheit 451

Источник: Zen in the Art of Writing

Источник: Dandelion Wine

Источник: Zen in the Art of Writing

Источник: Something Wicked This Way Comes

Источник: Fahrenheit 451

Источник: The Illustrated Man

Источник: The Martian Chronicles

Источник: Fahrenheit 451