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.

Quote by Nelson Algren

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Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.

Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.

Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.

Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.

Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.

Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.

Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.

Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.

The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has...

The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has...

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus...

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus...

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's....

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's....

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of...

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of...

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus...

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus...

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades...

Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades...

Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature

Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature

History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty...

History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty...

Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled,...

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled,...

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature

Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate...

Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate...

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary...

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary...