Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.
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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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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The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively.
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When you make a bet, you’re saying something.
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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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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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Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist.
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Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it’s a kind of risky trade.
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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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Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation.
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The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.
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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 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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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 mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don’t get any patients.
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Divorce transforms habit into drama.
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