Nelson Algren Quotes
- The devil lives in a double-shot", Roman explains himself obscurely. "I got a great worm inside. Gnaws and gnaws. Every day I drown him and…
- ... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.
- Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.
- 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…
- You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A…
- Never sleep with someone whose troubles are worse than your own.
- ...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…
- And money can't buy everything. For example: poverty.
- 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…
- 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…