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Nelson Algren

"Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring."

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Vera Miles

"A Chicago alderman once confessed he needed physical exercise but didn't like jogging, because in that sport you couldn't hit anyone."

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Vera Miles

"You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner."

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Vera Miles

"His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the trip with him, but I'm so very glad I did. They were two of the finest concerts I've ever seen."

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Vera Miles

"Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring."

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Vera Miles

"Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio."

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Vera Miles

"It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters."

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Vera Miles

"Mahalia Jackson, I grew up around the corner from in Chicago."

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Vera Miles

"And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets."

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Vera Miles

"My uncle was the town drunk - and we lived in Chicago."

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Vera Miles

"My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's."

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Nelson Algren
"Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring."

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Nelson Algren
"Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity."

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Nelson Algren
"Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own."

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Nelson Algren
"The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy - yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible."

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Nelson Algren
"Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose."

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Nelson Algren
"The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man."

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