To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.
Nelson AlgrenHeroin got the drive awright-but there’s not a tingle to a ton-you got to get M to get the tingle-tingle.
Nelson AlgrenIf Jesus Christ treated me like you do, I’d drive in the nails myself.
Nelson Algren... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.
Nelson AlgrenTag: heart chicago divided urban
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...a city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.
Nelson AlgrenTag: chicago urban blood-red cities neon steel wilderness
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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 his teeth, couldn't tell you, though e try for a lifetime, how the simplest strap-hanger will ask the conductor to be let off at the next stop. ...
It is all for the taking. All the manuals by frustrated fictioneers on how to write can't give you the first syllable of reality, at any cot, that any common conversation can. All the classics, read and re-read, can't help you catch the ring of truth as does the word heard first-hand.
Tag: imagination truth writing originality writers
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...
Nelson AlgrenTag: dark addiction drugs heroin cold falling morphine
Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of reporting the American Century except from behind the billboards ...
Nelson AlgrenI am the penny whistle of American literature.
Nelson AlgrenTag: writers
Big-shot town, small-shot town, jet-propelled old-fashioned town, by old-world hands with new-world tools built into a place whose heartbeat carries farther than its shout, whose whispering in the night sounds less hollow than its roistering noontime laugh: they have builded a heavy-shouldered laughter here who went to work too young.
Nelson AlgrenTag: chicago
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