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The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into th

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. – Nelson Algren

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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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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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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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Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity. It is a lonely and private substitute for conversation. – Brooks Atkinson

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It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane. – Margaret Anderson

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A professional writer is an amateur who didnt quit. – Richard Bach

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The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. – James Baldwin

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The more I practice, the luckier I get. – Jerry Barber, about golf

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Dreams are road signs along the nighttime highway of sleep. – Terri Guillemets

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Id go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light Id take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. Thats how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques. – Herb Ritts

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Outside of a dog, a book is mans best friend. Inside of a dog its too dark to read. – Groucho Marx

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