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Roscoe Roscoe by William Kennedy
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“Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.”
― William Kennedy, Roscoe
tags: 1920s, bon-mots, city, history, jazz-age-stories, machine-politics, politics, satire, sin, urban-life, vice
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“Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory.”
― William Kennedy, Roscoe
tags: 1920s, jazz-age-stories, prohibition
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“Only a bet on the impossible makes sense. It is an act of faith and courage requiring an irrational leap over reason. A man wins simply by making such a bet.”
― William Kennedy, Roscoe
tags: courage, inspirational, motivational, risk, self-motivation, success, truth-of-life
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