I’m good at reading people.
AL ALVAREZThe point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is 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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Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it’s a kind of risky trade.
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No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.
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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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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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The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively.
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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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It puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine life.
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The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.
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When you make a bet, you’re saying something.
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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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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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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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