Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called M… — Nelson Algren

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 AlgrenNovelist · American · 1909 – 1981

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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. — Robert Frost
What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother. — Phyllis Schlafly
There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son. — Franz Grillparzer
The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man. — Nelson Algren
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity. — Nelson Algren
Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose. — Nelson Algren