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> [“faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose. Such fears as these are a solvent that can eat out the cement that…](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/)

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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/)

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