Quote by Nelson Algren
The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turne

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

Other quotes by Nelson Algren

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. – Nelson Algren

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Hollywood
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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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Love
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Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Moms. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. – Nelson Algren

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mom
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Criticism
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All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism. – Anon.

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Criticism

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion. – Walter Benjamin

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Criticism

Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath. – Bible

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Criticism

Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else. – Leo Aikman

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Criticism

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The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us. – Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Biodynamics

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Miscellaneous

What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that Im a good person to society. Thats hard. The talent, thats a gift. I just came here like that. – Erykah Badu

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Society

I… was seized very early with a passion for literature, which has been the ruling passion of my life, and the great source of my enjoyments. – David Hume (1712–1776)

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Literature

Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest? – Sydney Madwed

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Business