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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Never eat in a place called Mom's.Nelson Algren
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.
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.
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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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The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.
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