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Nelson Algren has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer…
• The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with…
• To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.
• A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly…
• Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles…
• I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired…
• Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.
• Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.

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