"Never play cards with a guy named Doc...."

[Jonathan Lighter]

Undoubtedly correct.

  JL

Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> 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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