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.
AL ALVAREZIt puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine life.
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I’m good at reading people.
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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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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 mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don’t get any patients.
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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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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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When you make a bet, you’re saying something.
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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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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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Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.
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The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.
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I absolutely don’t believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.
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The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.
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Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation.
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