Quotes by Nelson Algren

Nelson Algren

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

Heart

Knowing

Love You

…he said, with sort of a little derisive smile, “How can you walk down the street with all this stuff going on inside you?” I said, “I don’t know how you can walk down the street with nothing going on inside you.

Littles

Said

Stuff

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

Cities

Country

Rap

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 innermost feelings.

Book

Character

Feelings

And money can’t buy everything. For example: poverty.

Example

Poverty

And never, ever, no matter what else you do in your whole life, never sleep with anyone whose troubles are worse than your own.

Sex

Sleep

Women

Any writer who knows what he’s doing isn’t doing very much.

Knows

Writing

Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.

Chicago

Cities

Spring

For the masses who do the city’s labor also keep the city’s heart.

Cities

Heart

Mass

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.

Dark

Fall

Wall

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Devil

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Quotes by Nelson Algren

Nelson Algren

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

…he said, with sort of a little derisive smile, “How can you walk down the street with all this stuff going on inside you?” I said, “I don’t know how you can walk down the street with nothing going on inside you.

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

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 innermost feelings.

And money can’t buy everything. For example: poverty.

And never, ever, no matter what else you do in your whole life, never sleep with anyone whose troubles are worse than your own.

Any writer who knows what he’s doing isn’t doing very much.

Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.

For the masses who do the city’s labor also keep the city’s heart.

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.

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