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From Quotes by Nelson Algren
- 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…
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- 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…
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