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The Impossible Generalized Man is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Source: Notes from a Sea Diary: Hemingway All the Way, Prefatory, 1966.
-- 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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