"Now, if, as I think, writing should be,……" — Al Alvarez
"Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade."
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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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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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When you make a bet, you're saying something.
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More Kind Quotes
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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary…
— Paul Auster
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is…
— Karen Armstrong
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In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were…
— Karen Armstrong
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
— Isaac Asimov
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Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge…
— Mary Astell
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I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you.…
— Chinua Achebe
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Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to…
— Rowan Atkinson
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There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the…
— David Attenborough
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When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines.
— Margaret Atwood
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On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me…
— John James Audubon
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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he…
— Saint Augustine
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You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!
— Dan Aykroyd
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