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.
AL ALVAREZMass 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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The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively.
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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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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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Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.
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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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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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Divorce transforms habit into drama.
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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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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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Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.
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I absolutely don’t believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.
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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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The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.
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