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.
AL ALVAREZWhen neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself.
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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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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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Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation.
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When you make a bet, you’re saying something.
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Divorce transforms habit into drama.
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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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I absolutely don’t believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.
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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself.
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No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.
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Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it’s a kind of risky trade.
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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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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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When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself.
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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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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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