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For people never say anything the same way twice; no two of them ever say it the same. The greatest imaginative writer that ever brooded in a lavender robe and a mellowed briar in …
Nelson Algren Entrapment and Other Writings imagination originality truth writers writing
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.
Nelson Algren A Walk on the Wild Side relationships survival wisdom
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 essen…
Nelson Algren Nonconformity alienation pity robbery ruthlessness writing
A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly or indirectly, by his characters, into presenting publicly his …
Nelson Algren Entrapment and Other Writings books confessional writers writing
It's the place built out of Man's ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man's endless war against himself we build our successes as well as our failures. Making it the city…
Nelson Algren Chicago: City on the Make chicago cities creation failure loneliness
To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.
Nelson Algren books criticism critics literature writing
She was neither widow nor mother: she only yearned for the dignity of a woman who had once belonged, somewhere, to somebody. She had belonged to no one, for she had never wanted ch…
Nelson Algren The Neon Wilderness belonging chicago women
... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.
Nelson Algren Chicago: City on the Make chicago divided heart urban
Never sleep with someone whose troubles are worse than your own.
Nelson Algren A Walk on the Wild Side sex troubles
I bet you think fellas are the ones to remember a girl -- don't you?" He shook his head hurriedly, that he'd always thought that." Fellas have all the fun 'n she just sees one righ…
Nelson Algren Never Come Morning chicago memory prostitution

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  9. Nelson Mandela, e.g. 64.52%
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  11. Nelson, e.g.: Abbr. 64.29%
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  16. Willie Nelson genre 62.50%
  17. Nelson or Nimitz 62.07%
  18. "___ on the Wild Side": Algren 61.11%
  19. Nelson Mandela's org. 60.61%
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The old plural of Eye.
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