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“There have been times I have thought some dreams should never be dreamt, but I would hate a world where that was true.”
― Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs

“I don鈥檛 think I鈥檝e ever referred to any girl I dated as my girlfriend. I think that would freak me out. Even the girl that I dated for two years in college I don鈥檛 think I ever referred to her as my girlfriend.鈥�
鈥淗ow would you introduce her?鈥� I asked.
鈥淚鈥檓 just going to say her name,鈥� he said.”
― Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs

“That weekend the city blushed with a great heat wave but on Monday it rained, cooling the ache in the street鈥檚 burn.”
― Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs

“Look, girls know when they鈥檙e cute,鈥� he said. 鈥淵ou don鈥檛 have to tell them. All they need to do is look in the mirror. I have one friend out in New York, an attorney. She moved out there after the school year to take the bar. She doesn鈥檛 have a job. I was like, 鈥楬ow are you going to get a job there in this market?鈥� And she鈥檚 like, 鈥業鈥檒l wink and I鈥檒l smile.鈥� She鈥檚 a pretty girl. Whether that works despite her poor grades is yet to be seen.”
― Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs

“One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. 鈥榃hat鈥檚 the point?鈥� he said. 鈥楰ids aren鈥檛 getting jobs.鈥� You never hear faculty talk that way. He did.”
― Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs

“I remember when I was twenty-five,鈥� he said. 鈥淣o client comes to you when you鈥檙e twenty-five. It鈥檚 like when you are looking for a doctor. You don鈥檛 want the new one that just graduated. You don鈥檛 want the very old one, the one shaking, the one twenty years past his prime. You want the seasoned one who has done it so many times he can do it in his sleep though. Same thing with attorneys.”
― Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs

“I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On the contrary they are needed, and the success of mixtures downtown (on in the most intensive portions of cities, whatever they are called) is related to the mixture possible in other part of cities.”
― Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“Do you want to achieve something or do you just want to make money?鈥� asked a nearby man in a white shirt to another man in a striped shirt. I waited for the answer as I slowly walked past them.
鈥淲hy is it an either or question?鈥� the man in the striped shirt finally murmured philosophically under a sip of beer. They both stood there looking at each other in thought.”
― Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs

“I鈥檝e officially turned into a loser,鈥� she whispered cynically. 鈥淚鈥檓 looking forward to going home and having cereal for dinner and walking Mitchell and studying a little and then going to sleep. I鈥檝e had my 鈥榞oing out and having fun鈥� quota for the year, I guess, and it鈥檚 June.”
― Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs

“Shortly before school started, I moved into a studio apartment on a quiet street near the bustle of the downtown in one of the most self-conscious bends of the world. The 鈥淕old Coast鈥� was a neighborhood that stretched five blocks along the lake in a sliver of land just south of Lincoln Park and north of River North. The streets were like fine necklaces and strung together were the brownstone houses and tall condominiums and tiny mansions like pearls, and when the day broke and the sun faded away, their lights burned like jewels shining gaudily in the night.
The world鈥檚 most elegant bazaar, Michigan Avenue, jutted out from its eastern tip near The Drake Hotel and the timeless blue-green waters of Lake Michigan pressed its shores. The fractious make-up of the people that inhabited it, the flat squareness of its parks and the hint of the lake at the ends of its tree-lined streets squeezed together a domesticated cesspool of age and wealth and standing. It was a place one could readily dress up for an expensive dinner at one of the fashionable restaurants or have a drink miles high in the lounge of the looming John Hancock Building and five minutes later be out walking on the beach with pants cuffed and feet in the cool water at the lake鈥檚 edge.”
― Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs

“Really, nobody was there?鈥� I asked.
鈥淲ell, nobody important,鈥� he said, putting his glasses back on and blinking.”
― Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs

“It was a generation growing in its disillusionment about the deepening recession and the backroom handshakes and greedy deals for private little pots of gold that created the largest financial meltdown since the Great Depression. As heirs to the throne, we all knew, of course, how bad the economy was, and our dreams, the ones we were told were all right to dream, were teetering gradually toward disintegration. However, on that night, everyone seemed physically at ease and exempt from life鈥檚 worries with final exams over and bar class a distant dream with a week before the first lecture, and as I looked around at the jubilant faces and loud voices, if you listened carefully enough you could almost hear the culmination of three years in the breath of the night gasp in an exultant sigh as if to say, 鈥淟aw school was over at last!”
― Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs

“The stars glittered in the sky and as the number of people at the party grew there were merging conversations and laughter and bodies moving in outlines around the kegs of beer in a curtsy of youth.”
― Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs

“Don鈥檛 you think most of those kids think too much about who got an A or a B when they were in law school and what that means to an inflated G.P.A. and not enough about the world?鈥� asked Connor irrelevantly.”
― Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs

“The city, to her, meant a few particular blocks - the best blocks - lying together in a neat rectangle, linked by arcades and department stores; three streets one way, cut by four at right angles, bound at the top by gardens, self-enclosed at the bottom and either end. Three or four times a week she walked the streets of these blocks, smelt the coffee, the flowers, the rich expensive leather, the cosmetics.”
― Elizabeth Harrower, Down in the City

“you chippy hunk of shit,/don't bad mouth me! I'm/the toughest guy in town, you don't know/who the hell you're in this room/with!”
― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

“she likes that and I like it too because to/make a thing true all you've/got to do is believe”
― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

“I saw the bumpy shape of my skull, I saw myself shorn and revealed. I wandered in a dream around the city, glimpsing in shop windows a strange creature with my face.”
― Helen Garner, Monkey Grip

“Should I have a doughnut or my disgusting cardboard?鈥� asked Gwynn, as she drew up languidly before me at a study table in a bookstore on State Street, raising a puffed rice cake in the air.
My eyes narrowed attentively at her face, but as I hesitated, she announced eagerly, 鈥淒isgusting cardboard it is!”
― Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs

“You know, sometimes I think this is just not it,鈥� he said, his glasses flashing from the early night鈥檚 light.
He turned toward me in a thoughtful pause.
鈥淵ou know what I mean, Tom?鈥� he asked. 鈥淚t鈥檚 just not.”
― Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs

“This is so funny,鈥� said Ellen, noticing the seating arrangement. 鈥淚sn鈥檛 this funny? Tom, come sit next to Robin. Griffin, sit next to Laura.鈥�
I stood up and sat next to Robin while Griffin brought his chair over to Laura.
鈥淭hat鈥檚 better,鈥� said Ellen. 鈥淚sn鈥檛 that better?”
― Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs

“Stark: So, you think Mason knows I'm back.
Vidocq: You just blew up his home. He might suspect something.”
― Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim

“I like Oregon, USA, but I do avoid their troublesome downtown areas.”
― Steven Magee