The platitude turned on its head is still a platitude
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Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
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The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.
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With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.
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Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.
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New York is one of the capitals of the world and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic, San Francisco is a lady, Boston has become Urban Renewal, Philadelphia and Baltimore and Washington wink like dull diamonds in the smog of Eastern Megalopolis, and New Orleans is unremarkable past the French Quarter. Detroit is a one-trade town, Pittsburgh has lost its golden triangle, St. Louis has become the golden arch of the corporation, and nights in Kansas City close early. The oil depletion allowance makes Houston and Dallas naught but checkerboards for this sort of game. But Chicago is a great American city. Perhaps it is the last of the great American cities.
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