Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.
AL ALVAREZNo 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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I’m good at reading people.
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I absolutely don’t believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.
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The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively.
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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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No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.
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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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Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation.
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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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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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I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don’t get any patients.
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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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Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it’s a kind of risky trade.
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When you make a bet, you’re saying something.
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Divorce transforms habit into drama.
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