13 quotes
Questioning Choices and Identity in Society
Clarisse
Why?
Guy Montag
What?
Clarisse
How did it come about? What made it begin? What made you want to do – How could someone like you be doing this kind of work? I know everyone says that, but you! You're not like them. When I say something to you, you look at me. Why did you choose this job? For you it doesn't seem to make any sense.
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The Temperature of Burning Book Paper
Guy Montag
Fahrenheit four-five-one is the temperature at which book paper catches fire and starts to burn.
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Montag's Indifference to Forbidden Leisure Activities
The Captain
What does Montag do with his day off duty?
Guy Montag
Not very much, sir. Mow the lawn.
The Captain
And what if the law forbids that?
Guy Montag
Just watch it grow, sir.
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Confusion About Cousin Claudette's Hairstyle
Linda Montag
Did you see that? Cousin Claudette's got a bouffant tonight.
Guy Montag
Who?
Linda Montag
Cousin Claudette.
Guy Montag
Who is Cousin Claudette?
Linda Montag
The cousin announcer, the one you don't like.
Guy Montag
I don't like any of them.
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The Promise of Tomorrow's Flame
Taglines
A flame with the excitement and emotions of tomorrow!
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The Significance of Fahrenheit in Literature
Guy Montag
*Book paper actually combusts at 450 degrees celsius, but Ray Bradbury (the author of the book this movie was based upon) thought fahrenheit sounded more powerful. Book paper catches fire at 842 degrees fahrenheit.
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Questioning the Past of Firemen
Clarisse
Is it true that a long time ago, firemen used to put out fires and not burn books?
Guy Montag
Really, your uncle is right, you are light in the head. Put fires out? Who told you that?
Clarisse
Oh, I don't know. Someone. But is it true did it?
Montag
Oh, what a strange idea. Houses have always been fireproof.
Clarisse
Ours isn't
Guy Montag
Well, then, it should be condemned one of these days. It has to be destroyed, and you will have to move to a house that is fireproof.
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The Struggle for Individual Thought and Understanding
Guy Montag
Well then it wasn't the analyst. It was the staff that wanted to get rid of you because you are different. Look at that fellow over there.
Clarisse
What's he doing?
Guy Montag
That's the information box. He can't make up his mind.
Clarisse
What's he want to find out?
Guy Montag
He doesn't want to find out anything. He knows someone who has books. So he got hold of the person's picture and number, and is going to drop it into that box.
Clarisse
But he's an informer!
Guy Montag
No, he's an informant. Look at him. Like someone circling around a woman.
Clarisse
He's putting something in his mouth.
Guy Montag
It's a stimulant to work up his nerve.
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Conversations on Age and Perception
Guy Montag
Hasn't this uncle of yours ever warned you never to speak to strangers?
Clarisse
No. He did say once if anyone asked how old I was to say I was 20 and light in the head. They always go together.
Guy Montag
Light in the head?
Clarisse
Mm-hmm. Loopy. Crazy. Anyway, you don't frighten me.
Montag
Why should I?
Clarisse
No reason really. The uniform, I suppose.
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Discovery of Reading in a Controlled Society
Guy Montag
Do you remember what you asked me the other day? If I ever read the books I burn? Remember?
Clarisse
Uh-huh.
Guy Montag
Last night I read one.
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Appreciating Nature and Literature in Conversation
Clarisse
You don't like the books then?
Guy Montag
Do you like the rain?
Clarisse
Yes, I adore it.
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The Search for True Connection and Family
Guy Montag
You spend your whole life in front of that family wall. These books are my family. When did we first meet? And where?
[''to Linda'']
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The Right to Read Explored
Taglines
What if you had no right to read?
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