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Thinking of Melville, thinking of Poe, thinking of Mark Twain and Vachel Lindsay, thinking of Jack London and Tom Wolfe, one begins to feel there is almost no way of becoming a creative writer in America without being a loser.

— Nelson Algren

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A man who won't demean himself for a dollar is a phoney to my way of thinking.

What country is there for a white man who isn't white?

The clock in the room above the Safari told only Junkie Time.

The Man with the Golden Arm (1949)

A writer who knows what he is doing isn't doing very much.

I am the penny whistle of American literature.

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