“They've hung everything on  me but the Chicago fire.”

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“Koko Taylor walked up on John Henry took the hammer right out his hand and bent it and twisted it into a fine necklace and took him to a real nice dinner. Koko Taylor had twelve thousand wigs. One she never wore. Just kept at home. Was enchanted, spun from gold and full of rubies, and sang to her at night in the voice of her mother. Koko Taylor wrote songs with a blue ink pen. Koko Taylor wrote rivers with a blue ink pen. Koko Taylor wrote the Illinois Central Rail line with a blue pen. Just got right on her knees and scratched it into the ground. Koko Taylor was the ghostwriter of seventeen Beatles songs. Koko Taylor was the inventor of the icebox. Koko Taylor could play chess with checkers. Koko Taylor could bake a pound cake in the palm of her hand by winking. Koko Taylor flew from Memphis to Chicago on a jukebox. The jukebox could grant three wishes. Koko Taylor wished for lipstick the color she saw in a dream. She wished to be born again, under a good sign. She wished for a better jukebox.”
“Chicago is superior to cities such as Boston, which had no urban planning whatsoever and whose streets resemble a bowl of spaghetti. Being eaten by Satan.”
“I used to worry a lot about who I'd be when I grew up. You know, like how much money I'd make or, umm, like some day I'd become some big deal. Sometimes, the thing you want most doesn't happen. And sometimes, the thing you never expect does. Like giving up my job in Chicago and everything and deciding to stay and apply to med school. I don't know. You meet thousands of people and none of them really touch you. And then you meet one person and your life is changed... forever.”

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