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 don't think there's ever a right time to have kids. I'm actually pretty glad it's happened quite young.
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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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I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy.
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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 have a lot of fond memories of St. Patrick's Day in Chicago. Vague, but fond.
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To each according to his threat advantage does not count as a principle of justice.
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I feel that one of the most important lessons that can be learned is that what we "see" may be different than what is actually in front of us.
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Some US journalist came up to me and said: 'How can you say this about President Bush?' Well, I think what I said then was quite mild. I actually think that Bush is the greatest threat to life on this planet that we've most probably ever seen. The policies he is initiating will doom us to extinction.
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A writer who knows what he is doing isn't doing very much.
