The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D. -Nelson Algren

 

The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.


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This quote is just one of 8 total Nelson Algren quotes in our collection. Nelson Algren is known for saying 'The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.' as well as some of the following quotes.

The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.

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Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.

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I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday. -Nelson Algren
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Never play cards with any man named "Doc." Never eat at any place called "Mom's." And never, never, no matter what else you do in your whole life, never sleep with anyone whose troubles are worse than your own.

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy /yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

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Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. -Nelson Algren
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Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.

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