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• When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself. You pause…
• Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation, seemed merely a temporary halt on…
• Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade.
• 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 your own,…
• Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over…
• 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 are good…
• I'm good at reading people.
• I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.

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