Nelson Algren Quotes
It is strange how fragile this man-creature is.....in one second he's just garbage. Garbage, that's all.
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I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.
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Entrepreneurs in the United States and Europe finally figured out how to separate aluminum from minerals cheaply and also how to produce it on an industrial scale.
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I listen to music constantly while writing.
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We live surrounded by critics, so let them talk, let them criticize me as much as they want. Ultimately, that makes me a better player.
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We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.
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Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.
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The problem with some of our noisier exponents of 'American exceptionalism' is that they lack Reagan's moral maturity.
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I know all the books of the Bible.
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.
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In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.
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With the weekend, I figured I'd let the guys go home,
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I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.
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I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.
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I love the fact that I'm bad at [things], you know what I'm saying? I'm forever the 35-year-old 5-year-old. I'm forever the 5-year-old of something.
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If you told me to cry for you I could If you told me to die for you I would Take a look at my face There's no price I won't pay To say these words to you
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Can I, just one time, play the good guy?
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Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected.
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We've certainly seen some improvement in 2005. Based on what our clients are telling us, we're expecting more of the same for 2006.
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I think of moral beauty as what is the good and the just - terms perhaps best defined by their opposite: evil. Evil is the willingness to do damage to the other; its maximal expression is murder, but it includes a great deal of subtle and not-so-subtle injuries as it advances to that extreme. Evil acts reduce the other to an object, a being to its component parts, and obliterate subjectivity. Evil's breeding ground is a lack of empathy.
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A lot of newsrooms have thought very carefully about how they cover race. I don't think the same conversations have gone on regarding women.
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It is strange how fragile this man-creature is.....in one second he's just garbage. Garbage, that's all.
