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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nelson-algren/yet-once-you-ve-come-to-be-part-of-this-particular-patch-you-ll-never/)

[Nelson Algren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nelson-algren/)

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## More by Nelson Algren

> [When we get more houses than we can live in, more cars than we can ride in, more food than we can eat ourselves,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nelson-algren/when-we-get-more-houses-than-we-can-live-in-more-cars-than-we-can/)

[Nelson Algren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nelson-algren/)

> [“For way down there, in a shot glass's false bottom, everything was bound to turn out fine after all.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nelson-algren/for-way-down-there-in-a-shot-glass-s-false-bottom-everything-was/)

[Nelson Algren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nelson-algren/)

> [Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nelson-algren/chicago-is-an-october-sort-of-city-even-in-spring/)

[Nelson Algren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nelson-algren/)

> [“Without hesitation, Dove chose the nowhere road. For that was the only place, in his heart of hearts, that he really wanted to go.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nelson-algren/without-hesitation-dove-chose-the-nowhere-road-for-that-was-the-only/)

[Nelson Algren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nelson-algren/)

> [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nelson-algren/big-shot-town-small-shot-town-jet-propelled-old-fashioned-town-by-old/)

[Nelson Algren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nelson-algren/)

> [Never eat in a place called 'Mom's'.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nelson-algren/never-eat-in-a-place-called-mom-s/)

[Nelson Algren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nelson-algren/)

> [“Nor all your piety nor all your preaching, nor all your crusades nor all your threats can stop one girl from going on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nelson-algren/nor-all-your-piety-nor-all-your-preaching-nor-all-your-crusades-nor/)

[Nelson Algren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nelson-algren/)

> [“A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nelson-algren/a-certain-ruthlessness-and-a-sense-of-alienation-from-society-is-as/)

[Nelson Algren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nelson-algren/)

> [Never sleep with someone whose troubles are worse than your own.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nelson-algren/never-sleep-with-someone-whose-troubles-are-worse-than-your-own/)

[Nelson Algren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nelson-algren/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nelson-algren/if-you-feel-you-belong-to-things-as-they-are-you-won-t-hold-up-anyone/)

[Nelson Algren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nelson-algren/)

> [Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nelson-algren/literature-is-made-upon-any-occasion-that-a-challenge-is-put-to-the/)

[Nelson Algren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nelson-algren/)

> [“faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nelson-algren/faith-in-the-eventual-supremacy-of-reason-has-become-so-timid-that-we/)

[Nelson Algren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nelson-algren/)

> [“And when I read one of those scapegoat pieces about the "viciousness" of drug pushers, and extolling the basic humanitarianism of the nark-squad hero,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nelson-algren/and-when-i-read-one-of-those-scapegoat-pieces-about-the-viciousness/)

[Nelson Algren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nelson-algren/)

> [There is no way of being a creative writer in America without being a loser.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nelson-algren/there-is-no-way-of-being-a-creative-writer-in-america-without-being-a/)

[Nelson Algren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nelson-algren/)

> [“If Jesus Christ treated me like you do, I’d drive in the nails myself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nelson-algren/if-jesus-christ-treated-me-like-you-do-i-d-drive-in-the-nails-myself/)

[Nelson Algren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nelson-algren/)

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