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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/121/">Quotes by <em>Algren, Nelson</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

Nelson Algren (March 28, 1909 - May 9, 1981) was a legendary American writer. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"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."

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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."

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"Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity."

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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