“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
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“Chicago shrugged the sniping off. Big was big. Success today would dispel at last the eastern perception that Chicago was nothing more than a greedy, hog-slaughtering backwater; failure would bring humiliation from which the city would not soon recover, given how heartily its leading men had boasted that Chicago would prevail. It was this big talk, not the persistent southwesterly breeze, that had prompted New York editor Charles Anderson Dana to nickname Chicago “the Windy City.”
― The Devil in the White City
― The Devil in the White City
“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”
― I Am the Messenger
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”
― I Am the Messenger
“Sometimes you simply made the wrong choice and you had to live with it. You could only change the future.”
― Fly Away
― Fly Away
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