Source: Almost Like Being in Love
“[About his legacy:] I'll be all right so long as it has been written on some corner of a human heart. On the heart, it doesn't matter how you spell it.”
Quoted by Ron Grossman, "Nelson Algren's Chicago" http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-nelson-algren-flashback-chicago-authors-perspec-0326-jm-20170324-story.html, The Chicago Tribune, March 25, 2017.
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American novelist, short story writer 1909–1981Related quotes
Where Is God (2009, Thomas Nelson publishers)

“His heart; some long word at the heart. He is dying of a long word.”
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

“The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.”
Book I, Ch. 8
The Professor's House (1925)

“We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.”


You Can't Let the Boy Overpower) The Man in You (1964
Song lyrics, With The Miracles