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  1. Paul Auster _ City of Glass

    What will happen when there are no more pages in the red notebook?
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  2. Paul Auster _ City of Glass

    I have come to New York because it is the most forlorn of places, the most abject. The brokenness is everywhere, the disarray is universal. You have only to open your eyes to see it. The broken people, the broken things, the broken thoughts. The whole city is a junk heap.
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  3. Paul Auster _ City of Glass

    If some saw the Indians as living in prelapsarian innocence, there were others who judged them to be savage beasts, devils in the form of men. The discovery of cannibals in the Caribbean did nothing to assuage this opinion. The Spaniards used it as a justification to exploit the natives mercilessly for their own mercantile ends. For if you do not consider the man before you to be human, there are few restraints of conscience on your behavior towards him. It was not until 1537, with the papal bull of Paul III that the Indians were declared to be true men possessing souls."
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  4. Paul Auster _ City of Glass

    The telephone was not his favorite object, and more than once he had considered getting rid of his. What he disliked most of all was its tyranny. Not only did it have the power to interrupt him against his will, but inevitably he would give in to its command.
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  5. Paul Auster _ City of Glass

    And that's finally all anyone wants out of a book- to be amused
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  6. Paul Auster _ City of Glass

    Would it be possible, he wondered, to stand up before the world and with the utmost conviction spew out lies and nonsense? To say that windmills were knights, that a barber's basin was a helmet, that puppets were real people? Would it be possible to persuade others to agree with what he said, even though they did not believe him? In other words, to what extent would people tolerate blasphemies if they gave them amusement? The answer is obvious, isn't it? To any extent. For the proof is that we still read the book. It remains highly amusing to us. And that's finally all anyone wants out of a book-to be amused.
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  7. Paul Auster _ City of Glass

    If you do not consider the man before you to be human, there are few restraints of conscience on your behavior towards him.
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  8. Paul Auster _ City of Glass

    Quinn froze. There was nothing he could do now that would not be a mistake. Whatever choice he made--and he had to make a choice--would be arbitrary, a submission to chance. Uncertainty would haunt him to the end. At that moment, the two Stillmans started on their way again. The first turned right, the second turned left. Quin craved an amoeba's body, wanting to cut himself in half and run off in two directions at once. {Chapter 7}
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  9. Paul Auster _ City of Glass

    It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.
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  10. Paul Auster _ City of Glass

    By wandering aimlessly, all places became equal, and it no longer mattered where he was.
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  11. Paul Auster _ City of Glass

    They had come to the end of what they could talk about. Beyond that point there was nothing: the random thoughts of men who knew nothing.
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  12. Paul Auster _ City of Glass

    He would conclude that nothing was real except chance."
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