To put yourself into a situation where a mistake cannot necessarily be recouped, where the life you lose may be your own, clears the head wonderfully.
AL ALVAREZThe point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.
More Al Alvarez Quotes
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The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.
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I absolutely don’t believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.
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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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The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.
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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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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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Seemed merely a temporary halt on my steady descent through layer after layer of depression, like an elevator stopping for a moment on the way down to the basement.
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I’m good at reading people.
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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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In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets’ nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.
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Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.
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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 mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don’t get any patients.
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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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