The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.
AL ALVAREZThe real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively.
More Al Alvarez Quotes
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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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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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When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself.
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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.
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Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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