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Nelson Algren Quotes

The American middle class's faith in personal comfort as an end in itself is, in essence, a denial of life. And it has been imposed upon American writers and playwrights strongly enough to cut them off from their deeper sources.

Nelson Algren

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 28, 1909 - May 9, 1981

Topics

Life Faith End American Enough

The oil boom is providing Montanans an opportunity for good paying jobs.

Steve Bullock

Good Opportunity Oil Boom Providing

It wasn't just music in the Ramones: it was an idea. It was bringing back a whole feel that was missing in rock music - it was a whole push outwards to say something new and different.

Tommy Ramone

Music Feel Push Back New Rock

I just like traditional songs that come from an honest place, and they make you feel something and tell a story and they flow right.

Robert Coppola Schwartzman

Story Feel You Place Flow Right

Playing albums in sequence can be awesome, or it can be very limiting.

Mike McCready

Awesome Playing Very Sequence Albums

If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into the future - and these markets clearly did not exist - what assurance do we have of the stability and efficiency of the capitalist system?

Joseph Stiglitz

Future Efficiency Clearly System Far

I made it clear that I can run a positive campaign and do it better.

Jon Ossoff

Positive Better I Can Run Clear

Who knows what crumbling infrastructure lies beneath our sleeping children? Actually, many people do - they pay surveyors to take a look.

Christine Pelosi

Children People Look Sleeping Pay

When I get it into my head that I want to do something, I do it.

Poppy Montgomery

Want Head Something Get

Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.

Peter Singer

Library Long Everything Been Ever

I'm very disciplined in the approach I take for my training.

Tim Kennedy

Training Take Approach Very

Personally, I don't know what I'd do without films.

Nico Mirallegro

Know Without Personally Films

Since the end of World War II, American leadership has been essential to maintain world peace. Whether we liked it or not, we were the world's policeman. There was no other cop on the beat. Now, that leadership is gone. So, increasingly, will be peace.

Richard Cohen

Leadership Peace War World End Now