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.
AL ALVAREZThe better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.
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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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The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.
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Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.
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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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I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don’t get any patients.
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No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.
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The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.
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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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Divorce transforms habit into drama.
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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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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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I absolutely don’t believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.
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Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it’s a kind of risky trade.
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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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It puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine life.
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