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

Quote by Nelson Algren

Topics: Chicago Quotes

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....

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.

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...

Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.

Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.

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...

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...

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...

A wicked book cannot repent

A wicked book cannot repent

Literature is analysis after the event.

Literature is analysis after the event.

Whoever is able to write a book and does not, it is as if he...

Whoever is able to write a book and does not, it is as if he...

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature

Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts...

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts...

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

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

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens

Bad literature is a form of treason.

Bad literature is a form of treason.

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by...

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by...