Nelson Algren Quotes
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
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I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.
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I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored.
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Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least in small part, because of his book. The notion that ubiquitous surveillance and state manipulation of the media is evil is deeply engrained in us.
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My life is not that glamorous. I actually live a pretty simple life, really. I just work. I don't have time to do all these glamorous things. I just do my thing, just work.
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It's always the first 10,000 SoundCloud listens; that was definitely a big moment, seeing the online stuff grow and crowds grow.
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Everything I do today is because of what I did when I was 14.
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I believe in the Constitution - and I believe in common sense.
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The best way to start doing something is to start doing something.
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During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.
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The cause of suffering is that the unbounded Self is overshadowed by the world.
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Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.
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I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks.
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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
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I want to be successful, and I want to do good, but I also want to be myself.
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I do not tweeze my eyebrows. I've been letting them grow out for years. I try to fill them in wherever nature has abandoned me.
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I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!
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All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.
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You get to decide what energy you choose to download in any moment. No one but you gets to decide who you wish to be.
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Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
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O my people, I disavow all that you associate with God. I orient my face with an exclusive orientation towards Him, who created the heavens and the earth and I am not one of the associators.
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New York reminds me a little bit of Canada and my upbringing. Los Angeles is like living in a vacation, and you have to pinch yourself every once and a while.
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A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.
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A writer who knows what he is doing isn't doing very much.
