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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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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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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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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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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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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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I’m good at reading people.
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The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.
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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 mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don’t get any patients.
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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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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself.
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No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.
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