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""Writer's block? I've heard of this. This is when a writer cannot write, yes? Then that person isn't a writer anymore. I'm sorry, but the job is getting up in the fucking morning and writing for a living.""
— Warren Ellis

tags: chicago, ellis, warren

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"Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse."
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

tags: chicago, cincinnati

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"Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning...proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with
Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation."
— Carl Sandburg

tags: chicago

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"I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold."
— Erik Larson

tags: acknowledgments, chicago, city, devil, white

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"It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and din to mask that something dark had taken root. This was Chicago, on the eve of the greatest fair in history."
— Erik Larson (The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America)

tags: chicago

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"On the Rolling Stones - You will walk out of the Amphitheatre after watching the Stones perform and suddenly the Chicago stockyards smell clean and good by comparison."
— Tom Fitzpatrick

tags: chicago, humor, music, performance, rolling, stones

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"“you’ll know it’s the place built out of man’s ceaseless failure to overcome himself. out of man’s endless war against himself we build our successes as well as our failures. making it the city of all cities most like man himself-loneliest creation of all this very old poor earth.”"
— Nelson Algren (Chicago: City on the Make: 50th Anniversary Edition, Newly Annotated)

tags: chicago

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