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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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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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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Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.
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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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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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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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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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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself.
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