The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.
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 better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.
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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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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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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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It puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine life.
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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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When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself.
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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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Divorce transforms habit into drama.
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Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.
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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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Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.
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Each 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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