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Well, here you get to be a writer when there's absolutely nothing else you can do.

— Nelson Algren The Art of Fiction No. 11 (1955)

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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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