Nelson Algren

Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real. ↗

— Nelson Algren

#cities #love #lovely #love

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

— Nelson Algren

#divided #heart #urban #love

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

#been #bench #bringing #dock #down

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent. ↗

— Nelson Algren

#criticism #critics #literature #writing #literary-criticism

I don't know what kind of great I'm bound to be," Dove considered his prospects calmly, "all I know for certain is I'm born a world-shaker. ↗

— Nelson Algren

#identity #prospects-on-life #life

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

— Nelson Algren

#apparatus #challenge #conscience #humanity #legal

Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring. ↗

— Nelson Algren

#city #even #october #sort #spring

Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose. ↗

— Nelson Algren

#chicago #like #loving #nose #woman

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

#got #guy #hired #i #me

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

#cards #eat #man #mom #never