A Walk on the Wild Side
A Walk on the Wild Side is a 1956 novel by Nelson Algren, most often quoted as the source for Algren's "three rules of life": "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." Algren noted, "The book asks why lost people sometimes develop into greater human beings than those who have never been lost in their whole lives."
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A Walk on the Wild Side
A Walk on the Wild Side is a 1956 novel by Nelson Algren, most often quoted as the source for Algren's "three rules of life": "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." Algren noted, "The book asks why lost people sometimes develop into greater human beings than those who have never been lost in their whole lives."
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Farrar, Straus and Cudahy
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