You can't be a good writer in the States anymore... Because to be a good one you have to have a country where you can be poor and still eat, and still make your living standards secondary to your writing. Thoreau himself couldn't do that in the States today...(Sept. 1953 letter to Millen Brand)
-Nelson Algren
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