"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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"Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.“
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