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Conversations with Nelson Algren QUOTES

Conversations with Nelson Algren QUOTES

1 " Psaní dává lidskému životu urřitou důstojnost. I kdyby to nikdy nikdo nečetl, aspoň něco děláte. Pracujete na té nejdůležitější věci... Rozhodně je to lepší než psát reklamní texty. Neutloukáte se aspoň v plytkostech. A máte šanci pohovořit si s těmi, kteří se dosud nenarodili. "

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2 " American literature isn't anybody phoning to anybody or anybody writing about anybody. American literature is the woman in the courtroom who, finding herself undefended on a charge, asked, 'Isn't anybody on my side?' It's also the phrase I used that was once used in court of a kid who, on being sentenced to death, said, 'I knew I'd never get to be twenty-one anyhow. "

― , Conversations with Nelson Algren