The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.
AL ALVAREZSince 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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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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Divorce transforms habit into drama.
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Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.
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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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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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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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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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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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The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively.
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I’m good at reading people.
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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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The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.
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