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Conversations with Nelson Algren

by H.E.F. Donohue

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The Days Trilogy: Happy Days / Newspaper Days / Heathen Days / Days Revisited: Unpublished Commentary

by H.L. Mencken

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The Blue in the Air

by Marcello Carlin

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Darren’s Quotes

“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, Chicago: City on the Make

tags: judge, necessity, responsibilty, writers

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“...a city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.”
― Nelson Algren, Chicago: City on the Make

tags: blood-red, chicago, cities, neon, steel, urban, wilderness

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“You are afraid of it because it is stronger than you; you hate it because you are afraid of it; you love it because you cannot subdue it to your will. Only the unsubduable can be loved.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

tags: love

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“There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

tags: revolution

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“To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent of a far larger portion of future? Certainly it does, but for a young person, the future is a remote, abstract, unreal thing he doesn't really believe in.”
― Milan Kundera, Ignorance

tags: death-note

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