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.
More Quotes from Nelson Algren:
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
Never eat in a place called Mom's.
Nelson Algren
Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.
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.
Nelson Algren
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
Nelson Algren
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Life Quotes, Man Quotes, Place QuotesBooks are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
Joseph Addison
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
Fanny Brice