Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist.
AL ALVAREZIt 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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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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I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don’t get any patients.
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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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I’m good at reading people.
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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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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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The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively.
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Divorce transforms habit into drama.
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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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The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.
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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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Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation.
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When you make a bet, you’re saying something.
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