Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.
AL ALVAREZPerhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.
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I absolutely don’t believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.
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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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No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.
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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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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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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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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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The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively.
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Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it’s a kind of risky trade.
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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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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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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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Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation.
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