... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.
Nelson AlgrenTags: heart chicago divided urban
...a city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.
Nelson AlgrenTags: chicago urban blood-red cities neon steel wilderness
Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.
Nelson AlgrenTags: love chicago cities lovely
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 EllisTags: writing chicago warren-ellis
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 LarsonTags: chicago
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 AlgrenTags: success man loneliness creation failure chicago cities overcome
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 FitzpatrickTags: humor music performance chicago rolling-stones
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 SandburgTags: chicago
It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago
Dan QuayleTags: dumb geography chicago gaffe
I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold.
Erik LarsonTags: chicago acknowledgments
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