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

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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. – 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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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

Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby. – Walter Benjamin

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Criticism

To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons. – Charles Baudelaire

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Criticism

Criticism should be a casual conversation. – W. H. Auden

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Criticism

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I am the family face flesh perishes, I live on. – Thomas Hardy

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Technology will definitely solve all our problems, but in the process it will create brand new ones. But thats O.K. because the most you can expect from life is to get to solve better and better problems. – Scott Adams

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The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newtons formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity. – Paul Davies

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Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of mans superiority to all that befalls him. – Romain Gary

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