The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively.
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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I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don’t get any patients.
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The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.
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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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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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The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.
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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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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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Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.
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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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It puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine life.
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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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When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself.
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Divorce transforms habit into drama.
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I’m good at reading people.
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