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If Jesus Christ treated me like you do, I'd drive in the nails myself. — Nelson Algren

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

That's how it's always been: I was always in the clear so long as I was truly guilty. But the minute my motives were honest someone would finger me. — Nelson Algren

Never eat in a place called 'Mom's'. — Nelson Algren

For the masses who do the city's labor also keep the city's heart. — Nelson Algren

There is no way of being a creative writer in America without being a loser. — Nelson Algren

If you write something, and you believe in it, you'd like to see sixty million people moved by it. — Nelson Algren

Well, I may get drunk," the Widow admitted, "but I don't stagger. Sometimes I fall down. But I don't stagger. — Nelson Algren

Never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you. — Nelson Algren

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

In this neighborhood, with only forty-five cents, you're a bum. But Sobotnik, even with two dollars, he's still a bum. — Nelson Algren

Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you. — Nelson Algren

I couldn't buy the lice off a sick cat, the cabbie answered from the very depths of self-deprecation. — Nelson Algren

Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose. — Nelson Algren

The farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources. — Nelson Algren

I am against censorship. I don't think there is anything more stupid than censorship. — Nelson Algren

When I burn please bury me deep
Somewhere on West Division Street
Put a bottle beneat' my head
'n a bottle beneat' my feet — Nelson Algren

I am the penny whistle of American literature. — Nelson Algren

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

Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring. — Nelson Algren

The city divided by the river is further divided by racial and lingual differences. — Nelson Algren

Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much. — Nelson Algren

Heroin got the drive awright-but there's not a tingle to a ton-you got to get M to get the tingle-tingle. — Nelson Algren

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent. — Nelson Algren

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

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

There's people in hell who want ice water. — Nelson Algren

It is strange how fragile this man-creature is ... in one second he's just garbage. Garbage, that's all. — Nelson Algren

Well, we all have our good days.
That one bad night can ruin. — Nelson Algren

The only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer until something happens. — 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. — Nelson Algren

I don't recommend being a bachelor, but it helps if you want to write. — Nelson Algren

I don't know what kind of great I'm bound to be," Dove considered his prospects calmly, "all I know for certain is I'm born a world-shaker. — Nelson Algren

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

And money can't buy everything. For example: poverty. — Nelson Algren

Since I'm essentially optimistic, I can't imagine a world in which man is totally decimated or degraded. — Nelson Algren

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