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Nelson Algren

Watch for a wild boy of no pa...

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.

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Nelson Algren

One of the best things Henry ...

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 40 quotes
Nelson Algren

Yet once you've come to be pa...

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 40 quotes
Nelson Algren

The only way I could finish a...

The only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer until something happens.

Nelson Algren 40 quotes
Nelson Algren

It is strange how fragile thi...

It is strange how fragile this man-creature is.....in one second he's just garbage. Garbage, that's all.

Nelson Algren 40 quotes
Nelson Algren

And never, ever, no matter wh...

And never, ever, no matter what else you do in your whole life, never sleep with anyone whose troubles are worse than your own.

Nelson Algren 40 quotes
Nelson Algren

I'm not against sentimentalit...

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.

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Nelson Algren

When we get more houses than ...

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.

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Nelson Algren

Thinking of Poe, thinking of ...

Thinking of Poe, thinking of Mark Twain and Vachel Lindsay, thinking of Jack London and Tom Wolfe, one begins to feel there is almost no way of becoming a creative writer in America without being a loser.

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Nelson Algren

The Impossible Generalized Ma...

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 40 quotes
Nelson Algren

For the masses who do the cit...

For the masses who do the city's labor also keep the city's heart.

Nelson Algren 40 quotes
Nelson Algren

A book, a true book, is the w...

A book, a true book, is the writer's 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.

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Nelson Algren

Our myths are so many, our vi...

Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of reporting the American Century except from behind the billboards.

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Nelson Algren

...he said, with sort of a li...

...he said, with sort of a little derisive smile, "How can you walk down the street with all this stuff going on inside you?" I said, "I don't know how you can walk down the street with nothing going on inside you.

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Nelson Algren

To literary critics a book is...

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

Nelson Algren 40 quotes
Nelson Algren

The great trains howling from...

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.

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Nelson Algren

He was falling between glacia...

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.

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Nelson Algren

(Chicago is) the only major c...

(Chicago is) the only major city in the country where you can easily buy your way out of a murder rap.

Nelson Algren 40 quotes
Nelson Algren

Never play cards with a man ca...

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 40 quotes
Nelson Algren

Literature is made upon any oc...

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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