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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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.Nelson Algren
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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.
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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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Never eat in a place called Mom's.
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