Fahrenheit 451 - Distraction vs Happiness

Clarisse ask Montag

"Are you happy?"

Clarisse being lonely

"I'm antisocial, they say; I don't mix. It's so strange, for I'm very social indeed, depending on what you mean by social."

Montag questions society

"The important thing for you to remember, Montag, is we're the Happiness Boys, standing against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy.

Montag Curiosity on books

"At least once in his career, every fireman gets an itch to wonder what the books say. Oh, to scratch that itch, eh?"

Montag emptiness on society

"We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy; something's missing. The only thing I positively knew was gone was the books I'd burned, so I thought books might help."

Montag understanding books

"It's not books you need, but some of the things that once were in books. The same infinite detail and awareness could be projected through radios and televisors, but are not."

Montage searches for answers

"We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam."

Montag tryies to understand firemen

"Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents."

Secret partnership

"He would be Montag-plus-Faber, fire plus water, and then, after everything had mixed and simmered, there would be neither fire nor water, but wine."

Community and Montag watched city

"They are so confident that they will run on forever, but they won't. They don't know this is all one huge big blazing meteor that makes a pretty fire in space, but someday it'll have to hit."