"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.










I am the penny whistle of American literature.
More Nelson Algren quotes
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"For people never say anything the same way twice; no two of them ever say it the same. The greatest imaginative writer that ever brooded in a lavender...



