Al Alvarez Quotes

Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.
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Become Hard Increase Increasingly Perhaps
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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After Basement Down Layer Merely Seem Through
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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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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All Tradition
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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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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Coherence Inchoate Over Own Possibility Seem
Divorce transforms habit into drama.

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Divorce transforms habit into drama.
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Drama
The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively.

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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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Accept Audience Now Real
I absolutely don’t believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.

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I absolutely don’t believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.
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Anything Full Include
The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.
AL ALVAREZ

More Seem Vulnerable

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