Quotes of Nelson Algren

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I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday.

- Nelson Algren

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“ Fear lies. Save love. ”

- Arif Naseem

“ Gratitude is not love. Don’t mix the two because they are not the same. ”

- Frank Matobo

“ Your dream should always be greater than your grievances ”

- Aadarsh Singh

“ What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution. ”

- Ram Dass

“ Either you run the day, or the day runs you. ”

- Jim Rohn

“ Tucker strokes my hair. There's something so tender about the gesture. It might as well have been him whispering I love you. ”

- Cynthia Hand

“ Life is an abstract art, and it’s up to you to make sense of it. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. ”

- Michel de Montaigne

“ We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. ”

- Anais Nin

“ Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. ”

- Unknown

“ Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night. ”

- A. J. McLean

“ I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. ”

- Kazuo Ishiguro

“ Family where life begins & love never ends. ”

- Unknown

“ All my problems bow before my stubbornness. ”

- Amit Kalantri

“ I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no, it is an everfixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand'ring bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken." (Sonnet 116) ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Love thy neighbor — and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier. ”

- Mae West

“ A good idea always attracts other good ideas. ”

- Patrick Ness

“ Hope is a waking dream. ”

- Aristotle

“ I love you and it’s getting worse. ”

- Joseph E. Morris

“ You are successful in my book if you do what you love for a living; you do not owe money to anyone; you have a place what you call home; you have a wife/husband, a girlfriend/boyfriend, or a partner who loves and respects you; and most importantly, you are surrounded by friends and loved ones who stand by you in good and bad days. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ When love comes like that, all you can do is surrender, to lay down your arms and submit to the will of those who would love you. For in denying it, you face only regret. ”

- Michael Kilman

“ Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truthpenultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ”

- Joseph Campbell