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"Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose."
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"Chicago is a city of contradictions, of private visions haphazardly overlaid and linked together."
"My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here."
"I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston."
"In 1971 I returned to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics."
"I've always wanted to do theater in Chicago. Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is savvier and smarter than New York. Sometimes, I think it's a little too chic to go to theater in New York these days."
"I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered."
"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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"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."
"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."
"Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity."
"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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