Author: Nelson Algren

Quotes

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

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

- Nelson Algren

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.

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

Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.

Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.

- Nelson Algren

The reason nobody investigates the men who are trading off our freedoms for private enrichment is that they are the very ones who are doing the investigating.

The reason nobody investigates the men who are trading off our freedoms for private enrichment is that they are the very ones who are doing the investigating.

- Nelson Algren

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