You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain rut — Nelson Algren, Nonconformity
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain rut — Nelson Algren, Nonconformity
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain rut — Nelson Algren, Nonconformity
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain rut — Nelson Algren, Nonconformity
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain rut — Nelson Algren, Nonconformity
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain rut — Nelson Algren, Nonconformity
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain rut — Nelson Algren, Nonconformity
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain rut — Nelson Algren, Nonconformity
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain rut — Nelson Algren, Nonconformity
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain rut — Nelson Algren, Nonconformity
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain rut — Nelson Algren, Nonconformity
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain rut — Nelson Algren, Nonconformity
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain rut — Nelson Algren, Nonconformity
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain rut — Nelson Algren, Nonconformity
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain rut — Nelson Algren, Nonconformity
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain rut — Nelson Algren, Nonconformity
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain rut — Nelson Algren, Nonconformity
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain rut — Nelson Algren, Nonconformity
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain rut — Nelson Algren, Nonconformity
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain rut — Nelson Algren, Nonconformity
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain rut — Nelson Algren, Nonconformity
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain rut — Nelson Algren, Nonconformity
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain rut — Nelson Algren, Nonconformity
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain rut — Nelson Algren, Nonconformity
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain rut — Nelson Algren, Nonconformity
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain rut — Nelson Algren, Nonconformity
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain rut — Nelson Algren, Nonconformity
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain rut — Nelson Algren, Nonconformity
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain rut — Nelson Algren, Nonconformity
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain rut — Nelson Algren, Nonconformity
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You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.

— Nelson Algren, Nonconformity
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