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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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Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.
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Become Climb Hard Increase Increasingly Perhaps Society
I’m good at reading people.
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Good People Reading
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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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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Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it’s a kind of risky trade.
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Divorce transforms habit into drama.
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Divorce Drama Habit Transform
The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively.
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Accept Art Audience Force Imagination Now Real Recognize Resistance
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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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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All Beyond Happen Human Imagination Tradition Value
Seemed merely a temporary halt on my steady descent through layer after layer of depression, like an elevator stopping for a moment on the way down to the basement.
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After Basement Depression Descent Down Elevator Layer Merely Seem Stop Temporary Through
The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.
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Art Artist Better More Seem Vulnerable
No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.
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Himself Kill Life Man Something Unless Wrong
When you make a bet, you’re saying something.
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Bet Make Say Something
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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Above Attack Country Else Nervous Poet Preference
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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