"...he said, with sort of a little derisive smile, "How can you walk down the street with all this stuff going on inside you?" I said, "I don't know how you can walk down the street with nothing going on inside you."

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Source : Nelson Algren, H. E. F. Donohue (1964). “Conversations with Nelson Algren”, Hill

Nelson Algren

#Stuff Quotes #Littles Quotes #Said Quotes

“I was very active in the peace movement, still am”
“Out of the red and silver and the long cry of alarm to the poet who survives in all human beings, as the child survives in him; to this poet she threw an unexpected ladder in the middle of the city and ordained, 'Climb!”
“When you get to No 10, you've climbed there on a little ladder called 'the status quo'. And when you are there, the status quo looks very good”
“In a year's time, he's a year older.”
“You never know how you're going to affect people.”
“I was sixteen and equipped with the appropriate genitalia, so I cleared that hurdle nicely.”
“There's always a sense of pride you take out on the field to play your best every night you go out there. Sometimes your best stinks.”

Source : "Pirates commit 7 errors in 12-2 loss to Cubs". www.foxnews.com. September 8, 2012.
“Hands on your breast can keep your heart beating.”

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