Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation.
AL ALVAREZEach sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation.
More Al Alvarez Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Divorce transforms habit into drama.
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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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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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I’m good at reading people.
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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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No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.
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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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Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.
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