Nelson Algren · 464 pages
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“There's people in hell who want ice water.”
― Nelson Algren, quote from The Man With the Golden Arm
“He was falling between glacial walls, he didn't know how anyone could fall so far away from everyone else in the world. So far to fall, so cold all the way, so steep and dark between those morphine-coloured walls...”
― Nelson Algren, quote from The Man With the Golden Arm
“If Jesus Christ treated me like you do, I’d drive in the nails myself.”
― Nelson Algren, quote from The Man With the Golden Arm
“Then the wooden benches along the walls, where so many outcasts had slept, would be lit by a sort of slow, clocked lightning til the bulb steadied and fastened its tiny feral fury upon the center of the room like a single sullen and manic eye. To burn on there with a steady hate. Til morning wearied and dimmed it away to nothing more than some sort of little old lost gray child of a district-station moon, all its hatred spent.”
― Nelson Algren, quote from The Man With the Golden Arm
“For way down there, in a shot glass's false bottom, everything was bound to turn out fine after all.”
― Nelson Algren, quote from The Man With the Golden Arm
“I couldn't buy the lice off a sick cat," the cabbie answered from the very depths of self-deprecation.”
― Nelson Algren, quote from The Man With the Golden Arm
“Heroin got the drive awright-but there’s not a tingle to a ton-you got to get M to get the tingle-tingle.”
― Nelson Algren, quote from The Man With the Golden Arm
Nelson Algren
Born place: in Michigan, The United States
Born date March 28, 1909
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“(Carter): "I've been protecting you since I joined the Mauricio family. You were why I joined them in the first place."
(Emma): "You did all that for me?"
(Carter): "I would declare war for you.”
― Tijan, quote from Carter Reed
“...her father was soothed by these attentions, as if pain were an appetite for comforting of just this kind.”
― Marilynne Robinson, quote from Home
“Where’s your hair?” she shouted. “And what happened to your arm?”
“Cut my hair and got shot with an arrow!”
“Gods below, Iseult! A few hours away and your whole life tumbles through the hell-gates!”
“I might say the same to you,” Iseult shouted back—though it was getting hard to scream and ride. “Four opponents on your tail and a ruined dress!”
― Susan Dennard, quote from Truthwitch
“فالإنسان المطرود من سياج الطفولة الواقى يرغب فى اقتحام العالم، لكن خوفه يدفعه إلى صنع عالم اصطناعى تعويضى بواسطة أشعاره، فيحيط نفسه بتلك الأشعار كما تحيط الكواكب بالشمس، ويحتل مركز عالم صغير لا شئ فيه غريبًا، يحس داخله بالألفة على غرار الطفل فى بطن أمه، لأن كل شئ هنالك مقدود من مادة روحه.
وهو هناك يستطيع أن يفعل كل ما يتعذّر عليه فعله فى الخارج. هناك يستطيع أن يسير بين حشود العمال من أجل القيام بالثورة، ويجلد عشيقاته الصغيرات، لأن هذه الحشود، وهذه العشيقات لم تُقدد من المادة العدائية لعالم غريب، بل من مادة أحلامه الخاصة.
فهى إذًا ليست غير ذاته، وهى لا تقطع من وحدة العالم الذى أنشأه لنفسه.”
― Milan Kundera, quote from Life is Elsewhere
“The staircase was deserted—the higher up the building the more reluctant were the residents to use the stairs, as if this in some way demeaned them.”
― J.G. Ballard, quote from High-Rise
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