Nelson Algren Quotes


... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you. Nelson Algren Chicago 99
Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose. Nelson Algren Broken 86
Yet once youve come to be part of this particular patch youll 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 Cities 79
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 Authors 72
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity. Nelson Algren Legal 66
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 Hollywood 62
...a city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness. Nelson Algren Blood 52
Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring. Nelson Algren Chicago 46
The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D. Nelson Algren Criticism 39
To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent. Nelson Algren Literature 38
I am the penny whistle of American literature. Nelson Algren Writers 36
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 Mom 34
A book a true book is the writers confessional. For whether he would have it so or not he is betrayed directly or indirectly by his characters into presenting publicly his innermost feelings. Nelson Algren Writers 33
He was falling between glacial walls he didnt 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 morphinecoloured walls... Nelson Algren Dark 31
The devil lives in a doubleshot Roman explains himself obscurely. I got a great worm inside. Gnaws and gnaws. Every day I drown him and every day he gnaws. Help me drown the worm fellas. Nelson Algren Alcohol 30

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