Chicago

critic

is a city which to love is like loving a woman with a broken nose.

Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.Nelson Algren

is a joint where the bulls and the foxes live well and the lambs wind up head-down from the hook.

is an October sort of city even in spring.

Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.

is one who assumes a book to be guilty until it proves itself innocent

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent

is the avocation of assessing the failures of better men.

is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.