Nelson Algren Quotes

I don't think I've ever been either militant or profound as an anti-Fascist. When the issue has come up, when certain things have come up, and I've been called on to express - literally, when I've been cornered, then I take a left-wing stand.

Nelson Algren

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I think any writer keeps going back to some basic theme. Sometimes it's autobiographical. I guess it usually is.

Joe Haldeman

ThinkBackSometimesThemeGoing

I'm the one who has to look in the mirror, and after a while it begins to eat at you.

John Candy

MirrorYouLookEatBeginsWho

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

Anatole France

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I was not an especially diligent student but nevertheless obtained a reasonable education in physics.

Robert Coleman Richardson

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Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that.

Tony Gilroy

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I don't do that virtual reality stuff. I'm not even into 3D, actually... I've been offered it. I just don't want to.

Roger Deakins

RealityWantVirtual RealityStuff

Yeah, see, my view of Jordan is that he doesn't belong to Washington.

Michael Wilbon

ViewWashingtonSeeBelongHeYeah

I'm not saying that players should go out and say random things, especially if they don't know anything about it. But I think players do know more than people give them credit for. People do research, and people are entitled to their own opinions.

Jaylen Brown

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When I was a kid, I loved all the silent comedians - Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin. And I used to imitate them. I'd go to see a Buster Keaton movie and come home and try things out I'd seen. I learned to do pratfalls when I was very young.

Dick Van Dyke

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The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central.

Dennis Ritchie

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But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you're afraid.

Arianna Huffington

DoingYouDreamAfraidEvenWhile

Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.

Philip Roth

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