"The point is that it looks like gambling……" — Al Alvarez
"The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money."
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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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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 Gambling Quotes
This quote is filed under Gambling Quotes,
one of 361 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased…
— Spencer Bachus
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Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
— Ambrose Bierce
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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
— Mel Brooks
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Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a…
— Rita Mae Brown
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Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie.'
— Sandra Bullock
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Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.
— Tim Burton
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Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional…
— Vince Cable
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A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three…
— Albert Camus
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It's been a difficult thing because some great opportunities have come and I've just been holding my breath and praying...…
— Charisma Carpenter
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Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
— James Allen
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If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.
— Woody Allen
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