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Never sleep with someone whose troubles are worse than your own.
— Nelson Algren
Never eat in a place called 'Mom's'.
— 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
I am against censorship. I don't think there is anything more stupid than censorship.
— Nelson Algren
When I burn please bury me deepSomewhere 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
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
(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 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
