Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation.
AL ALVAREZDivorce transforms habit into drama.
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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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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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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself.
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No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.
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When you make a bet, you’re saying something.
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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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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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I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don’t get any patients.
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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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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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Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.
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I absolutely don’t believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.
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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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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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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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