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The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.

Source: Preface to Chicago: City on the Make, 1951.
-- Nelson Algren, (Mar 28 1901-1981), US novelist; His realistic novel, The Man with the Golden Arm, about drug addiction was made into a 1955 film with Frank Sinatra.

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