It puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine life.
AL ALVAREZNo man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.
More Al Alvarez Quotes
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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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Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it’s a kind of risky trade.
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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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When you make a bet, you’re saying something.
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Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.
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Divorce transforms habit into drama.
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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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The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.
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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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When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself.
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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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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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Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation.
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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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