#Lying Quotes #Years Quotes #Differences Quotes
“The problem with cell phones is that you can’t slam them down into a cradle when you hang up. Your only option is to throw them, and if you do, they just skitter across the floor and crack their case. It’s not satisfying at all. I close my eyes and bend down to pick up the pieces.”
“I've always had an interest in sports across the board.”
“The constancies and equivalences adumbrated work havoc with such settled topical blocks as myth and philosophy, natural reason and revelation, philosophy and religion, or the Orient with its cyclical time and Christianity with its linear history. And what is modem about the modem mind, one may ask, if Hegel, Comte, or Marx, in order to create an image of history that will support their ideological imperialism, still use the same techniques for distorting the reality of history as their Sumerian predecessors?”
“But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.”
“Feuerbach ... recognizes ... "even love, in itself the truest, most inward sentiment, becomes an obscure, illusory one through religiousness, since religious love loves man only for God's sake, therefore loves man only apparently, but in truth God only." Is this different with moral love? Does it love the man, this man for this man's sake, or for morality's sake, for Man's sake, and so-for ***** homini Deus-for God's sake?”
“I'm not going to freeze my body. One life is enough for me. Some people take this gamble. That someone will be able to bring them back in the future. I'm not going to do it.”
“Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.”
Source : Nelson Algren (2011). “The Man with the Golden Arm: 50th Anniversary Critical Edition”, p.455, Seven Stories Press
“Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks.”