The epigraph for James Crumley's The Wrong Case advises not
to sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
He credits it to Lew Archer.
Archer did say that in one book (I'm not sure which), but he
credited it to a wise man from Chicago.
That wise man was Nelson Algren. The full quote from his A
Walk on the Wild Side is:
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 you cop another man's plea. I've tried
'em all and I know. They don't work.
Mark
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