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.
AL ALVAREZIt puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine life.
More Al Alvarez Quotes
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The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.
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Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation.
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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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It puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine life.
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I absolutely don’t believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.
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Divorce transforms habit into drama.
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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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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.
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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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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself.
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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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I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don’t get any patients.
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No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.
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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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