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The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have.

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There will be no redemption because the men who run this place do not want redemption. They want to be as near to hell as they can.

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In other words, fiction is payback for those who have wronged you.

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What does the perfect elevator look like, the one that will deliver us from the cities we suffer now, these stunted shacks? We don't know because we can't see inside it, it's something we cannot imagine, like the shape of angels' teeth. It's a black box.

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The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone.

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I think each book has its own way of accommodating my concerns, whether it's about race, America, technology, the city.

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I can't say that you should extract this or that value from my books explicitly. They are up for interpretation. In terms of the obligation, I think we're all individuals on this planet, trying to scratch our way through the day, and if you're writing a book exposing atrocities in Rwanda or writing a murder mystery set in a mountain village, I think both ways of spending you time are valid and both books are probably fine to read.

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