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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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The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.
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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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Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation.
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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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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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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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Divorce transforms habit into drama.
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No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.
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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 real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively.
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I absolutely don’t believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.
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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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When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself.
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When you make a bet, you’re saying something.
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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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