Chicago Quote by Nelson Algren

“(Chicago is) the only major city in the country where you can easily buy your way out of a murder rap.”

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“For way down there, in a shot glass's false bottom, everything was bound to turn out fine after all.”

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Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.

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“Without hesitation, Dove chose the nowhere road. For that was the only place, in his heart of hearts, that he really wanted to go.”

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“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,…

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Never eat in a place called 'Mom's'.

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“Nor all your piety nor all your preaching, nor all your crusades nor all your threats can stop one girl from going on the…

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“A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.”

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Never sleep with someone whose troubles are worse than your own.

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“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…

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Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.

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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…

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