"Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation."

-- Eugene V. Debs

#Cities Quotes #Chicago Quotes #Modern Quotes

“Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own enlightenment.”

Source : Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.9, Harvard University Press
“I would say I have taken substantive action to make things easier for people.”
“You think heâ€™s still alive?â€ Royce asked, nodding his head toward Alric. â€œSure,â€ Hadrian replied without bothering to look. â€œHeâ€™s probably sleeping. Why do you ask?â€ â€œI was just pondering something. Do you think a person could smother in a wet potato bag?â€ Hadrian lifted his head and looked over at the motionless prince. â€œI really hadnâ€™t thought about it until now.”
“If the participants regret participating, then you won't have something that reveals some greater truth about human condition or allow some other perspective. You need people to want to be there so they can talk at length and want to continue talking to you.”
“Do the people of this landâ€¦desire to preserve those [liberties] protected by the First Amendmentâ€¦ If so, let them withstand all beginnings of encroachment. For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanquished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch for a saving hand while yet there was time.”
“A guardian angel comes when you are very young, and gives you special dispensation. From what? From the world. Yours might be luck. Mine is money.”

Source : Jane Bowles (2014). “My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles”, p.12, Macmillan
“One day there were two out in the ninth, and I hit a pop fly so high that the fans got tired of waiting for it to come down. So they all went home and listened to it drop by turning on the radio.”
“Never being number one in your list of priorities and not minding at all.”

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