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Detroit, the heart of the country... I grew up on 10 Mile, 2 miles better than 8 Mile.


Kristen Bell


#country #detroit #grew #heart #i

I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit.


John Lee Hooker


#big #big cities #bright #bright lights #cincinnati

I used to think Romeo and Juliet was the greatest love story ever written. But now that I’m middle-aged, I know better. Oh, Romeo certainly thinks he loves his Juliet. Driven by hormones, he unquestionably lusts for her. But if he loves her, it’s a shallow love. You want proof? Soon after meeting her for the first time, he realizes he forgot to ask her for her name. Can true love be founded upon such shallow acquaintance? I don’t think so. And at the end, when he thinks she’s dead, he finds no comfort in living out the remainder of his life within the paradigm of his love, at least keeping alive the memory of what they had briefly shared, even if it was no more than illusion, or more accurately, hormonal. Yes, those of us watching events unfold from the darkness know she merely lies in slumber. But does he seek the reason for her life-like appearance? No. Instead he accuses Death of amorousness, convinced that the ‘lean abhorred monster’ endeavors to keep Juliet in her present state, cheeks flushed, so that she might cater to his own dissolute desires. But does Romeo hold her in his arms one last time and feel the warmth of her blood still coursing through her veins? Does he pinch her to see if she might awaken? Does he hold a mirror to her nose to see if her breath fogs it? Once, twice, three times a ‘no.’ His alleged love is so superficial and so selfish that he seeks to escape the pain of loss by taking his own life. That’s not love, but infatuation. Had they wed―Juliet bearing many children, bonding, growing together, the masks of the star-struck teens they once were long ago cast away, basking in the love born of a lifetime together―and she died of natural causes, would Romeo have been so moved to take his own life, or would he have grieved properly for her loss and not just his own. ―J. Conrad Guest, author of Backstop: A Baseball Love Story in Nine Innings, The Cobb Legacy, January's Paradigm, One Hot January, January's Thaw, A Retrospect in Death (forthcoming) and 500 Miles to Go (forthcoming)


J. Conrad Guest


#detroit-tigers #humor #love #romance #ty-cobb

Go ahead and laugh at Detroit. Because you are laughing at yourself.


Charlie LeDuff


#detroit #humor #literature #humor

Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airplane over Detroit, an attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square... I think that gives us a sense of the breadth of the challenges that we face, and the kinds of things that our enemy is trying to do.


Eric Holder


#attempt #bomb #breadth #bring #challenges

I bought salvation from a man on the street. He said, "Go down to the beach and let the waves wash your feet.


Gabriel Rheaume


#detroit #religious #spirituality #suicide #surreal

Detroit is a place where we've had it pretty tough. But there is a generosity here and a well of kindness that goes deep.


Mitch Albom


#detroit #generosity #goes #had #here

Yeah I grew up on the Westside of Detroit.


Obie Trice


#grew #i #up #yeah

Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person.


Julian Bond


#been #chairman #could #detroit #ever

After three failed marriages, I know what it's like to be replaced. So that's kind of how Joey Harrington must feel today... A former No. 1 choice looks to me like he's going to be a bust in Detroit.


Terry Bradshaw


#bust #choice #detroit #failed #feel






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