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Nelson Algren Quotes

And money can’t buy everything. For example: poverty Picture Quote #1

Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring Picture Quote #1

Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose Picture Quote #1

I don’t know what kind of great I’m bound to be, Dove considered his prospects calmly, all I know for certain is I’m born a world-shaker Picture Quote #1

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom’s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own Picture Quote #1

A walk on the wild side Picture Quote #1

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I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday Picture Quote #1

The great trains howling from track to track all night. The taut and telegraphic murmur of ten thousand city wires, drawn most cruelly against a city sky. The rush of city waters, beneath the city streets. The passionate passing of the night’s last El Picture Quote #1

He was falling between glacial walls, he didn’t know how anyone could fall so far away from everyone else in the world. So far to fall, so cold all the way, so steep and dark between those morphine-coloured walls Picture Quote #1

You don’t write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery Picture Quote #1

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy - yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible Picture Quote #1

One of the best things Henry Miller ever said was that art goes all out. It’s all out. It goes full length. . . . A big book is an all-out book in which you limit your life to things that pertain directly to the book Picture Quote #1

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There’s people in hell who want ice water Picture Quote #1

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent Picture Quote #1

And money can’t buy everything. For example: poverty Picture Quote #1

Never sleep with someone whose troubles are worse than your own Picture Quote #1

Never lie down with a woman who’s got more troubles than you Picture Quote #1

Any writer who knows what he’s doing isn’t doing very much Picture Quote #1

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When we get more houses than we can live in, more cars than we can ride in, more food than we can eat ourselves, the only way of getting richer is by cutting off those who don’t have enough Picture Quote #1

Life is hard by the yard, son. But you don’t have to do it by the yard. By the inch it’s a cinch. and money can’t buy everything. For example: poverty Picture Quote #1

Once you’ve come to be a part of this particular patch, you’ll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real Picture Quote #1

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity Picture Quote #1

Watch for a wild boy of no particular clan, ready for anything, always armed. Prefers fighting to toil, drink to fighting, chasing women to booze or battle: may attempt all three concurrently Picture Quote #1

For the masses who do the city’s labor also keep the city’s heart Picture Quote #1

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I’m not against sentimentality. I think you need it. I mean, I don’t think you get a true picture of people without it in writing... It’s a kind of poetry, it’s an emotional poetry, and, to bring it back to the literary scene, I don’t think anything is true that doesn’t have it, that doesn’t have poetry in it Picture Quote #1

I don’t recommend being a bachelor, but it helps if you want to write Picture Quote #1

You don’t write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery Picture Quote #1

Yet once you’ve come to be part of this particular patch, you’ll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real Picture Quote #1

... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you Picture Quote #1

The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man Picture Quote #1

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And money can’t buy everything. For example: poverty. (Nelson Algren Quotes) Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring (Nelson Algren Quotes) Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose (Nelson Algren Quotes) I don’t know what kind of great I’m bound to be, Dove considered his prospects calmly, all I know for certain is I’m born a world-shaker. (Nelson Algren Quotes) Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom’s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own (Nelson Algren Quotes) A walk on the wild side (Nelson Algren Quotes) I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday (Nelson Algren Quotes) The great trains howling from track to track all night. The taut and telegraphic murmur of ten thousand city wires, drawn most cruelly against a city sky. The rush of city waters, beneath the city streets. The passionate passing of the night’s last El (Nelson Algren Quotes) He was falling between glacial walls, he didn’t know how anyone could fall so far away from everyone else in the world. So far to fall, so cold all the way, so steep and dark between those morphine-coloured walls (Nelson Algren Quotes) You don’t write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery. (Nelson Algren Quotes) The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy - yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible. (Nelson Algren Quotes) One of the best things Henry Miller ever said was that art goes all out. It’s all out. It goes full length. . . . A big book is an all-out book in which you limit your life to things that pertain directly to the book. (Nelson Algren Quotes) There’s people in hell who want ice water (Nelson Algren Quotes) To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent (Nelson Algren Quotes) And money can’t buy everything. For example: poverty (Nelson Algren Quotes) Never sleep with someone whose troubles are worse than your own (Nelson Algren Quotes) Never lie down with a woman who’s got more troubles than you (Nelson Algren Quotes) Any writer who knows what he’s doing isn’t doing very much (Nelson Algren Quotes) When we get more houses than we can live in, more cars than we can ride in, more food than we can eat ourselves, the only way of getting richer is by cutting off those who don’t have enough (Nelson Algren Quotes) Life is hard by the yard, son. But you don’t have to do it by the yard. By the inch it’s a cinch. and money can’t buy everything. For example: poverty (Nelson Algren Quotes) Once you’ve come to be a part of this particular patch, you’ll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real (Nelson Algren Quotes) Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity (Nelson Algren Quotes) Watch for a wild boy of no particular clan, ready for anything, always armed. Prefers fighting to toil, drink to fighting, chasing women to booze or battle: may attempt all three concurrently (Nelson Algren Quotes) For the masses who do the city’s labor also keep the city’s heart (Nelson Algren Quotes) I’m not against sentimentality. I think you need it. I mean, I don’t think you get a true picture of people without it in writing... It’s a kind of poetry, it’s an emotional poetry, and, to bring it back to the literary scene, I don’t think anything is true that doesn’t have it, that doesn’t have poetry in it (Nelson Algren Quotes) I don’t recommend being a bachelor, but it helps if you want to write (Nelson Algren Quotes) You don’t write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery (Nelson Algren Quotes) Yet once you’ve come to be part of this particular patch, you’ll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real (Nelson Algren Quotes) ... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you (Nelson Algren Quotes) The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man (Nelson Algren Quotes)