Quote by Nelson Algren
I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I

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

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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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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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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If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple. – Bernardo Bertolucci

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In Beverly Hills… they dont throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows. – Woody Allen

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Hollywood

The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom. – Raymond Chandler

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An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer. – Fred A. Allen

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