Quote by Nelson Algren
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

Other quotes by 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

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Love
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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. – Nelson Algren

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legal
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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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Criticism
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Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal. – Martin Amis

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. – Walter Bagehot

If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, Id type a little faster. – Isaac Asimov

Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written. – Anon.

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Audacity augments courage hesitation, fear. – Publilius Syrus

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Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldnt be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice. – Corazon Aquino

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Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful. – Fergie

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mom

It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts. – K.T. Jong

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