"I think one of the interesting things about……" — Al Alvarez
"I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for."
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20 Quotes by Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez has 20 quotes on this site.
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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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Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation, seemed merely a temporary…
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Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade.
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I absolutely don't believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.
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To put yourself into a situation where a mistake cannot necessarily be recouped, where the life you lose may be…
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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of…
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The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.
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The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.
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Divorce transforms habit into drama.
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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…
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I'm good at reading people.
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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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More Ego Quotes
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one of 1,855 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They…
— Karen Armstrong
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I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally…
— Karen Armstrong
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous…
— Alan Ball
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We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where…
— Afrika Bambaataa
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A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom…
— Roseanne Barr
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The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by.
— David Beckham
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If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
— Arnold Bennett
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But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too…
— Anna Benson
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At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life…
— Annie Besant
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You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are…
— Jello Biafra
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Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one…
— Theodor Adorno
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