It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it’s funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money.
AL ALVAREZHold’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.
More Al Alvarez Quotes
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I absolutely don’t believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.
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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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I’m good at reading people.
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The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.
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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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Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation.
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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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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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Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.
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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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Divorce transforms habit into drama.
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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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Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.
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Mass democracy, mass morality and the mass media thrive independently of the individual, who joins them only at the cost of at least a partial perversion of his instincts and insights.
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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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