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Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.Nelson Algren
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Never sleep with someone whose troubles are worse than your own.Nelson Algren
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But nothing was said about chicken farming anymore. Once, long after it was too late for farming, he might catch her crying and pet her a bit. 'What's the matter, little baby? You got a fever? You want to take the night off?' She might murmur something about candling eggs, but he wouldn't be able to understand what she meant. And after a while she cried on without knowing what she meant either, as a girl cries over a bad dream long after the dream is forgotten. In time the tears dried. She could no longer cry over anything. All the tears had been shed, all the laughs had been had; all the long spent. Leaving nothing to do but to sit stupefied, night after night, under lights made soft beside music with a beat, to rise automatically when someone wearing pants pointed a finger and said 'that one there.Nelson Algren
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I don't know what kind of great I'm bound to be, " Dove considered his prospects calmly, "all I know for certain is I'm born a world-shaker.Nelson Algren
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Without hesitation, Dove chose the nowhere road. For that was the only place, in his heart of hearts, that he really wanted to go.Nelson Algren