When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself.
AL ALVAREZPerhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.
More Al Alvarez Quotes
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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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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 absolutely don’t believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.
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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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Divorce transforms habit into drama.
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When you make a bet, you’re saying something.
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The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.
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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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Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.
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Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it’s a kind of risky trade.
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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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The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.
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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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The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively.
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