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
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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.
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Never play cards with any man named ""Doc."" Never eat at any place called ""Mom's."" And never, never, no matter what else you do in your whole life, never sleep with anyone whose troubles are worse than your own.
anyone cards eat man matter named sleep troubles whose worse
Never play cards with any man named "Doc." Never eat at any place called "Mom's." And never, never, no matter what else you do in your whole life, never sleep with anyone 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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You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.
writing knows
Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.
heart cities mass
For the masses who do the city's labor also keep the city's heart.
mom sleep men
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 ...
responsibility writing men
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.
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.
writing want helping
I don't recommend being a bachelor, but it helps if you want to write.