"When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero."

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Source : Mike Royko (2014). “Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984-1997”, p.2523, Agate Digital

Mike Royko

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“America is always attracting people, from all over the earth.”
“Fake people talk about other people being fake. Real people worry about their business, and no one else's.”
“Today many Caribbean workers can be found in the hospital, construction, service and hotel industries, but there is also a growing professional sector.”
“There cannot exist in the future an economy which is still mercantile but which isn't capitalist anymore. Before capitalism there were economies which were partially mercantile, but capitalism is the last of this genre.”
“We linked handsâ€”my ex-boyfriend, my boyfriend, and my former friend-then-enemy-then friend and Iâ€”and walked through a door to see if maybe empty carbs were good for something after all.”
“Charity is not a potency of the soul, because if it were it would be natural. Nor is it a passion, because it is not in a sensitive potency in which are all passions. Nor is it a habit, because a habit is removed with difficulty; charity, however, is easily lost through one act of mortal sin. Therefore charity is not something created in the soul.”
“The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyone the sculpted flower.”
“This gown, is it cut from shadow?" the general asked. "I can barely feel it between my fingers." Not for want of trying, thought Madrigal. "Perhaps it is a reflection of the night sky," he suggested, "skimmed from a pond?" She supposed that he was being poetic. erotic, even. In return, as unerotically as possible- more like complaining of a stain that wouldn't come out-she said, "Yes, my lord. I went for a dip, and the reflection clung.”

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