The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively.
AL ALVAREZEach sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation.
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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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No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.
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Divorce transforms habit into drama.
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I’m good at reading people.
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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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Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it’s a kind of risky trade.
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in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.
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The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is 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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It puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine life.
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I absolutely don’t believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.
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Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.
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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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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 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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