"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. A few more worth reading:

When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself.…
Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation, seemed merely a temporary…
I absolutely don't believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.
To put yourself into a situation where a mistake cannot necessarily be recouped, where the life you lose may be…
Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of…
The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.
The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.
Divorce transforms habit into drama.
Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they…
I'm good at reading people.
I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.
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
Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is… — Karen Armstrong
In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were… — Karen Armstrong
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge… — Mary Astell
I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you.… — Chinua Achebe
Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to… — Rowan Atkinson
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the… — David Attenborough
When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. — Margaret Atwood
On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me… — John James Audubon
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he… — Saint Augustine
You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle! — Dan Aykroyd

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