Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist.
AL ALVAREZI absolutely don’t believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.
More Al Alvarez Quotes
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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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It puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine 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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When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself.
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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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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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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 mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don’t get any patients.
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When you make a bet, you’re saying something.
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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.
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Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it’s a kind of risky trade.
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I’m good at reading people.
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No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.
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I absolutely don’t believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.
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