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.
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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 like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.
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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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I think we're always intrigued by things we're not familiar with.
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I have no skills. I'm bad at most things.
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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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It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.
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Love is a light that never dwelleth in a heart possessed by fear.
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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.
