The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively.
AL ALVAREZI absolutely don’t believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.
More Al Alvarez Quotes
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Seemed merely a temporary halt on my steady descent through layer after layer of depression, like an elevator stopping for a moment on the way down to the basement.
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Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.
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In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets’ nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.
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I’m good at reading people.
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When you make a bet, you’re saying something.
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Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation.
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It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it’s funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money.
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Divorce transforms habit into drama.
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I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don’t get any patients.
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You pause and attend: the heart beats in your chest; outside, the trees are thick with new leaves, a swallow dips over them, the light moves, people are going about their business.
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Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist.
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No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.
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In the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.
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Since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.
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Hold’em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.
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