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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I’m good at reading people.
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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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The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively.
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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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Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist.
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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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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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Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it’s a kind of risky trade.
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Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.
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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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When you make a bet, you’re saying something.
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The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.
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Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation.
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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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It puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine life.
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