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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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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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Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it’s a kind of risky trade.
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I absolutely don’t believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.
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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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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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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 you make a bet, you’re saying something.
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The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.
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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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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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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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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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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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Divorce transforms habit into drama.
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