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

• 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.
• The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer…
• Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.
• The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy -yet…
• It is strange how fragile this man-creature is.....in one second he's just garbage. Garbage, that's all.
• I don't recommend being a bachelor, but it helps if you want to write.
• The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with…
• There's people in hell who want ice water.
• To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.
• There is no way of being a creative writer in America without being a loser.

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