Nelson Algren - The Man with the Golden Arm (1949)

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If Jesus Christ treated me like you do, I'd drive in the nails myself.

Nelson Algren

I'm not against sentimentality. I think you need it. I mean, I don't think you get a true picture of people without it in writing... It's a kind of poetry, it's an emotional poetry, and, to bring it back to the literary scene, I don't think anything is true that doesn't have it, that doesn't have poetry in it.

Nelson Algren

He had met him before, that certain down-at-heel vet growing stooped from carrying a thirty-five-pound monkey on his back.

Nelson Algren

He was falling between glacial walls, he didn't know how anyone could fall so far away from everyone else in the world. So far to fall, so cold all the way, so steep and dark between those morphine-coloured walls...

Nelson Algren