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1  She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander
2  I'm so damned unhappy, I'm so mad, and I don't know why.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander
3  Old Montag wanted to fly near the sun and now that he's burnt his damn wings, he wonders why.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright
4  They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up under them.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright
5  If we had a fourth wall, why it'd be just like this room wasn't ours at all, but all kinds of exotic people's rooms.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander
6  That's why we've lowered the kindergarten age year after year until now we're almost snatching them from the cradle.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander
7  The psychiatrist wants to know why I go out and hike around in the forests and watch the birds and collect butterflies.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander
8  After a long time of floating on the land and a short time of floating in the river he knew why he must never burn again in his life.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright
9  We've got to start somewhere here, figuring out why we're in such a mess, you and the medicine nights, and the car, and me and my work.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander