Chicago Historical Society

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    “You want to get Capone? Here’s how you get him: he pulls a knife, you pull a gun, he sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. It’s the Chicago way and that’s how you get Capone.”
    —David Mamet, U.S. screenwriter, and Brian DePalma. Jimmy Malone (Sean Connery)

    “What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a Man ... by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts?”
    —Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

    “When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)