I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don’t get any patients.
AL ALVAREZIt 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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Divorce transforms habit into drama.
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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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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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It 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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When you make a bet, you’re saying something.
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Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation.
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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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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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Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.
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The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.
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I absolutely don’t believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.
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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 neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself.
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No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.
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