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Nelson Algren
American
Novelist
About the author
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,
American
Novelist
Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.
Nelson Algren,
American
Novelist
#Chicago
#Spring
#October
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
Nelson Algren,
American
Novelist
#Challenge
#Humanity
#Literature
#Legal
#Conscience
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,
American
Novelist
#Play
#Man
#Woman
#Sleep
#Mom
#Cards
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,
American
Novelist
#Responsibility
#Man
#Necessity
#Writer
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,
American
Novelist
#Love
#Today
#Man
#Risk
#Meaning
#Unworthy
Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.
Nelson Algren,
American
Novelist
#Woman
#Chicago