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.
AL ALVAREZThe point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.
More Al Alvarez Quotes
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The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.
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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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When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself.
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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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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 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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I absolutely don’t believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.
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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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Divorce transforms habit into drama.
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I’m good at reading people.
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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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Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it’s a kind of risky trade.
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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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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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