The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.
AL ALVAREZHe 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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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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Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.
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Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it’s a kind of risky trade.
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Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.
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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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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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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in 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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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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The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.
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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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Divorce transforms habit into drama.
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I’m good at reading people.
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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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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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