"Illinois is a state of suspended animation and the people live in hibernation from Oct. to whenever it ever gets warmer."

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Source : 1940 Pal Joey, ch.9.

John O'Hara

#Illinois Quotes #People Quotes #Hibernation Quotes

“It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.”

Source : Waverley Root (1996). “Food”, William S. Konecky Associates
“Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.”
“The reason so few people are successful is no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide uphill.”
“There are very few players who know what to do when they're not marked. So sometimes you tell a player: that attacker is very good, but don't mark him.”
“Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.”
“We are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence.”
“Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith thou shalt to me is my mortal foe!”
“I want to do a good job. I'm just learning and I just want to have fun with it.”

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