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Nelson Algren
Nelson Algren
American Novelist
Born: Mar 28, 1909
Died: May 9, 1981
Down Live Man Men Think You
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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
Men Our Enrichment Investigating Nobody Freedoms Trading Doing Private Off Very Reason Who
The American middle class's faith in personal comfort as an end in itself is, in essence, a denial of life. And it has been imposed upon American writers and playwrights strongly enough to cut them off from their deeper sources. Nelson Algren
Life Faith Class Denial Playwrights Enough Has-Been Strongly Writers Comfort Imposed Been Sources Off End Itself American Personal Essence Middle Them Cut American Writers Deeper
New York is the place where they bind books and write blurbs and arrange the publicity and print the galleys... But Chicago is the place where the book is lived out before it is bound and the song is sung before it is recorded. Nelson Algren
Book Song Before Books Out Sung Recorded Write Bound New Print Arrange Chicago York New York Where Place Bind Lived Publicity
Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring. Nelson Algren
Travel Spring City Sort October Chicago Even
Obsession remains the price of creation, and the writer who declines that risk will come up with nothing more creative than 'The Foxes of Harrow' or 'Mrs. Parkington.' Nelson Algren
Creative Will Nothing Creation Risk More Remains Price Writer Obsession Come Up Than Who Foxes
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
Me Monday Out Thousand Guy Wednesday Week Fired Town Got Hired Tuesday Worked
The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy - yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible. Nelson Algren
Love Today Man Impossible Those Critic Worthy Risk Insofar Only Generalized No-One He Well Him Makes Unworthy Personal Loves Loving Meaning Who Believes
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
Mom Man Woman Own Worse Eat Troubles Never Than Place Your Whose Play Cards Sleep
The struggle to write with profundity of emotion and at the same time to live like a millionaire so exhausted F. Scott Fitzgerald that he was at last brought down to the point where he could no longer be both a good writer and a decent person. Nelson Algren
Time Good Struggle Millionaire Exhausted Down Live Brought Both Point Could Emotion Write Writer He Good Writer Longer Like Fitzgerald Scott Person Same Decent Same Time Where Last Profundity
I've always figured the only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer and longer until something happens - you know, until it finds its own plot - because you can't outline and then fit the thing into it. I suppose it's a slow way of working. Nelson Algren
You Book Slow Own Way Plot Finds Something Finish Outline Only Could Longer Suppose Know Until Because Always Making Fit Get Just Happens Then Working Figured Keep Thing
If you write something, and you believe in it, you'd like to see sixty million people moved by it. Nelson Algren
You People Believe See Something Write Like Moved Sixty Million Million People
I am against censorship. I don't think there is anything more stupid than censorship. Nelson Algren
Censorship Stupid Think More Am Than Anything Against
Since I'm essentially optimistic, I can't imagine a world in which man is totally decimated or degraded. Nelson Algren
Man World Degraded Totally Since Optimistic Essentially Which Imagine
I'd put the ninety-nine billion dollars - whatever it is - that's being appropriated for the Air Force and the Navy, and I'd put it into schools. I'd put it into traveling scholarships. Nelson Algren
Air Force Whatever Air Ninety-Nine Put Scholarships Schools Force Dollars Being Billion Billion Dollars Navy Traveling

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