Nelson Algren Quotes
The only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer until something happens.
Quotes to Explore
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I love everything that's beautiful. A lot of things.
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I would say 'The Master' was one of the most inspiring things I've ever got to work on.
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The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.
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I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.
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I just write mechanical things.
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When I went to university in Colorado, I was encouraged to write very innovative, experimental things, and some of the short stories in 'Bearded Ladies' are a little bit experimental.
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I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.
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The only things I'm competitive in are backgammon and poker.
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I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.
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I love mispronunciations. I love when people mispronounce things.
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Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture.
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The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.
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What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.
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When we have financial struggles, kids are so much more aware of things than we want them to be.
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I hated cracking the whip, and these juries turn into political things.
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Some things in literature are inexplicable.
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A lot of things that happen in the world make me a bit crazy.
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I love going to football games and going to homecoming dances and just doing normal things.
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Just reading about the various opinions concerning the conduct of the recent championship matches convinces me that the only thing to which two chessplayers could agree is that a third one is over-rated.
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Eliminating herself was a sort of aesthetic project. One can't go on anymore, she said, electronics seems so clean and yet it dirties, dirties tremendously, and it obliges you to leave traces of yourself everywhere as if you were shitting and peeing on yourself continuously: I want to leave nothing, my favorite key is the one that deletes.
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I feel the most vulnerable when I'm in love. When my heart is open, and when life is making me feel like I have to open up myself completely. Love has a tendency to do that.
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It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.
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The only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer until something happens.
