"Never play cards with a guy named Doc...." (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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Courtesy of Amazon's search inside the book:
_A Walk on the Wild Side_
"But blow wise to this, buddy, blow wise to this:  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.  Never let nobody talk
you into shaking another man's jolt.  And never cop another man's plea.
I've tried 'em all and I know.  They don't work. "

If you search _Man With the Golden Arm_, you get nada.  I searched for
"play cards," "Doc", "troubles,"  "sleep with," and "never eat".

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> On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> > I think it was in _The Man with the Golden Arm_ (1947) that Nelson
> > Algren first offered the advice, "Never play cards with a guy name
> > Doc, never eat at a place called Mom's, and never sleep
> with a woman
> > whose troubles are greater than your own."
>
> According to The Yale Book of Quotations, Algren used this in
> _A Walk on the Wild Side_ (1956).
>
> Fred Shapiro
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