Assessing Quote by Nelson Algren

“The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.” quote by Nelson Algren — Download Open image

“The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.”

Nelson Algren

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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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“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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Never eat in a place called 'Mom's'.

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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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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 or lose. Such fears as these are a solvent that can eat out the cement that binds the stones together; they may in the end subject us to a despotism as evil as any that we…

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The cost of assessing risk is now often greater than the cost of failing.

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I was trained as a philosopher never to put philosophers and their ideas into historical contexts, since historical context has nothing to do with the validity of the philosopher's positions. I agree that assessing validity and contextualizing historically are two entirely distinct matters and not to be confused with one another. And yet that firm distinction doesn't lead me to…

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