Nelson Algren
Nelson Algren
Nelson Algrenwas an American writer. He may be best known for The Man with the Golden Arm, a 1949 novel that won the National Book Award and was adapted as a 1955 film of the same name...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 March 1909
CountryUnited States of America
cards eat man mom sleep troubles whose woman worse
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
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Never sleep with someone whose troubles are worse than your own.
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Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
self deception vision
Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of reporting the American Century except from behind the billboards ...
ice water people
There's people in hell who want ice water.
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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...
cities broken noses
Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.
mom culinary
Never eat in a place called 'Mom's'.
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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.