Nelson Algren Quotes
...he said, with sort of a little derisive smile, "How can you walk down the street with all this stuff going on inside you?" I said, "I don't know how you can walk down the street with nothing going on inside you.
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Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.
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My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
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On my days off, I love denim cut off shorts with gladiator sandals and crop tops.
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I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.
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I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning;' I say I 'passed a school'.
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Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.
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El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
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When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
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The game has given me so much, and I tried to give so much back to the people who have showed me so much love day after day.
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I would support immediate construction of the Keystone Pipeline.
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I don't take story input from fans.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
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African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
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But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.
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What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.
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Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.
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When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.
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A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it is such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.
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I'd read Stone Cold's biography about how he lived on, like, raw potatoes, and I thought, this is all part of it. This is what wrestlers do, and this is what I'm going to do.
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I still subscribe to the minority view that all horses are offensive weapons and not to be trusted a yard.
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Here's what I've learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.
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...he said, with sort of a little derisive smile, "How can you walk down the street with all this stuff going on inside you?" I said, "I don't know how you can walk down the street with nothing going on inside you.
