Note: all page numbers and citation info for the quotes below refer to the Simon & Schuster edition of Fahrenheit 451 published in 2013. And it looks like we’re doing the same thing, over and over, but we’ve got one damn thing the phoenix never had. About something important, about something real?” (52)“Lecture’s over. Burn everything. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. We know all the damn silly things we’ve done for a thousand years and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it, someday we’ll stop making the goddamn funeral pyres and jumping in the middle of them.” (163) Montag takes stock of his former life as he burns it down, showing how easily it can be discarded. Chapter 1, "The Hearth and the Salamander" Page 11:
That’s our official slogan.” (8)“Well, after all, this is the age of the disposable tissue. He was not happy. I hope I’ve clarified things. I don’t think you realize how important you are, we are, to our happy world as it stands now.” (62)“We can’t do anything. I want to look at them, at least look at them once. This emotional shift reveals that a person’s opinion about books will not bring happiness in this world.Here, Montag is forced by Captain Beatty to burn down his house after Mildred reports his books. Prior to this conversation, he felt pleasure while burning books, but he now realizes this is not true happiness. Search all of SparkNotes Search. We know the damn silly thing we just did. Important Quotes with Page Numbers. We haven’t anything to go on, but maybe we can piece it out and figure it and help each other.” (66)“There was a silly damn bird called a phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a pyre and burnt himself up.But every time he burnt himself up he sprang out of the ashes, he got himself born all over again. How did you pick your work and how did you happen to think to take the job you have? The Best Free Resource for Outstanding Essay and Paper Topics, Thesis Statements and Important QuotesThis list of important quotations from “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury will help you work with the essay topics and thesis statements by allowing you to support your claims. You’re one of the few who put up with me. The important thing for you to remember, Montag, is we’re the Happiness Boys, the Dixie Duo, you and I and the others. He recognized this as the true state of affairs. While he once focused his anger by burning books, he now feels anger towards anyone who is not interested in books.
The others would walk off and leave me talking. He expresses his frustration with the way technology has taken over their lives: The televisions in the walls do all the talking while the people don’t talk to each other.
Because of this incident, Montag begins to think about what books mean, and he realizes he has never given much thought to what went into them. Copyright © 2012 Paperstarter.com. The 60th Anniversary Edition of the book is the newest one. Quotes related to Dissatisfaction within Fahrenheit 451. This moment illustrates the beginning of Montag’s transition. 3. After coming from a world with constant diversions that do not promote individual ideas, he wants the opportunity to simply be alone with his thoughts without any distractions.SparkNotes is brought to you by Barnes & Noble. He compares his attempt to “[putting] out fires with water pistols,” demonstrating how useless it is. After Montag returns home to discover that Mildred has taken pills and is unresponsive in her bed, he questions why the hospital sent a machine instead of a doctor to help her. While he has not yet read many books or learned many new things, he understands how foolish it was for him to not even wonder or ask questions about the world.Montag tries to read to Mildred’s friend to help them understand what they can learn from books.