Top 25 Quotes by Nelson Algren of 34 - Page 2

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

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

Lying, Dating, Advice

"Alastair Cook gives England total control against shambolic India" by Mike Selvey, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2011.

(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

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).

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

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

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