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Nelson Algren Quotes

New York is the place where they bind books and write blurbs and arrange the publicity and print the galleys... But Chicago is the place where the book is lived out before it is bound and the song is sung before it is recorded.

Nelson Algren

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

New York Song Book Place New Write

It may be a cliche, but cliche or not, I fear the day when the only marsh harriers or peregrines I can look at are in paintings by Joseph Wolf or Bruno Liljefors - and no matter how beautiful those works may be, life is the great thing: life, life, life.

John Burnside

Life Fear Beautiful Great Day Wolf

I learned to speak Italian, somewhat. Definitely enough to get around in Italy. My grandfather always used to swear at my grandmother in Italian.

Jen Lancaster

Speak Enough Grandfather Grandmother

We've all got stories to tell that no one else knows. We've all got this truly unique experience of being. So I would say cultivate that, because then also you're cultivating something which is very natural to you.

Max Richter

Experience You Unique Say Tell

We only invest in businesses that reduce labor.

Steve Jurvetson

Labor Invest Only Reduce Businesses

I've had over seven thousand pro fights.

Roddy Piper

Over Seven Thousand Fights Pro Had

I feel as though I came to music with something to say. It wasn't like that when I was younger. I didn't have the ability to articulate what it was I wanted to say.

Mary Gauthier

Music Feel Say Ability Something

I love making comedy. I never stopped loving it. I will continue to love it and I can't believe that I get to do it.

Mike Myers

Love Believe Comedy Loving Never

The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect.

Jaron Lanier

Advertising Looking Interesting Human

I have to say, 'Pod' was a bon-bon, a treat to myself. A treat to write: a happy, pleasurable write.

Douglas Coupland

Myself Happy Treat Say Write

The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in England on a bank holiday. It was solid with shipping.

Douglas Bader

Sea Road Holiday Bank Days Solid

When you're young, you don't realize the sacrifices that people are making for you.

Bobby Orr

People You Young Realize Making

There's nothing like performing in front of a live crowd and just having people literally react to whatever it is you do, and there's nothing better than when you get that connection with the audience.

Nikki Bella

Live People Better You Connection