“Big-shot town, small-shot town, jet-propelled old-fashioned town, by old-world hands with new-world tools built into a place whose heartbeat carries farther than… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“...a city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“So he bought tickets to the Greyhound and they climbed, painfully, inch by inch and with the knowledge that, once they reached… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“The city divided by the river is further divided by racial and lingual differences.” — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you. — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“When I burn please bury me deep Somewhere on West Division Street Put a bottle beneat' my head 'n a bottle beneat'… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“It's the place built out of Man's ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man's endless war against himself we build our… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
(Chicago is) the only major city in the country where you can easily buy your way out of a murder rap. — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“I bet you think fellas are the ones to remember a girl -- don't you?" He shook his head hurriedly, that he'd… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
When we get more houses than we can live in, more cars than we can ride in, more food than we can eat ourselves,… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“For way down there, in a shot glass's false bottom, everything was bound to turn out fine after all.” — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“Without hesitation, Dove chose the nowhere road. For that was the only place, in his heart of hearts, that he really wanted to go.” — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“Big-shot town, small-shot town, jet-propelled old-fashioned town, by old-world hands with new-world tools built into a place whose heartbeat carries farther than its shout,… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“Nor all your piety nor all your preaching, nor all your crusades nor all your threats can stop one girl from going on the… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.” — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“If you feel you belong to things as they are, you won’t hold up anyone in the alley no matter how hungry you may… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity. — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
