Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist.
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.
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Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation.
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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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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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Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it’s a kind of risky trade.
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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 point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.
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No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.
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Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.
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When you make a bet, you’re saying something.
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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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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself.
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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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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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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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