Nelson Algren Quotes - Page 2

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

  Nelson Algren

  Country, Rap, Cities

  Nelson Algren (2011). “The Man with the Golden Arm: 50th Anniversary Critical Edition”, p.369, Seven Stories Press

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• There's people in hell who want ice water.

  Nelson Algren

  Ice Water, People, Want

  Nelson Algren (2011). “Algren at Sea: Notes from a Sea Diary & Who Lost an American?-Travel Writings”, p.111, Seven Stories Press

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• The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.

  Nelson Algren

  Writing, Responsibility, Men

  1961 Preface to reprint of Chicago: City On The Make (first published 1951).

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• 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 fall, so cold all the way, so steep and dark between those morphine-coloured walls.

  Nelson Algren

  Wall, Fall, Dark

  Nelson Algren (2011). “The Man with the Golden Arm: 50th Anniversary Critical Edition”, p.58, Seven Stories Press

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• One of the best things Henry Miller ever said was that art goes all out. It's all out. It goes full length. . . . A big book is an all-out book in which you limit your life to things that pertain directly to the book.

  Nelson Algren

  Art, Book, Limits

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• The devil lives in a double-shot", Roman explains himself obscurely. "I got a great worm inside. Gnaws and gnaws. Every day I drown him and every day he gnaws. Help me drown the worm, fellas.

  Nelson Algren

  Alcohol, Devil, Helping

  Nelson Algren (2002). “The Neon Wilderness”, p.35, Seven Stories Press

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• Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.

  Nelson Algren

  Broken Heart, Cities, Broken Promises

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

  Nelson Algren

  Mom, Food, Cooking

  Nelson Algren (1983). “The Devil's Stocking”, New York : Arbor House Library of Contemporary Americana

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• I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday.

  Nelson Algren

  Monday, Fog, Tuesday

  In Malcolm Crowley (ed) Writers at Work (1958).

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