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The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.

Nelson Algren

Nelson Algren (1909–1981), U.S. author. Interview in Writers at Work, First Series, ed. Malcolm Cowley (1958).

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