Mass democracy, mass morality and the mass media thrive independently of the individual, who joins them only at the cost of at least a partial perversion of his instincts and insights.
AL ALVAREZHold’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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I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don’t get any patients.
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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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Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.
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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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The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.
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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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Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.
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in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.
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When you make a bet, you’re saying something.
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He pays for his social ease with what used to be called his soul – his discriminations, his uniqueness, his psychic energy, his self.
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Divorce transforms habit into drama.
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I’m good at reading people.
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When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself.
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No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.
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It puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine life.
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