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Al Alvarez

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Al Alvarez

“But in a tournament, you can be said in for all your money at any point so you can't make any mistakes so you have to, it's all about where you're sitting at the table.”

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Al Alvarez

“I absolutely don't believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.”

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Al Alvarez

“I could think of worse ways of going than at the poker table.”

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Al Alvarez

“I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.”

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Al Alvarez

“I mean to say, this is the book and I really loathe it and I can't imagine what a nice Jewish boy like me ever, how I ever got into this dreadful trade.”

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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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Al Alvarez

“I'm good at reading people.”

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Al Alvarez

“Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade.”

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Al Alvarez

“The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play better than ordinary players at all.”

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Al Alvarez

“When you make a bet, you're saying something.”

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Al Alvarez

“Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling.”

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Al Alvarez

“His face was blue, on his fingers Flecks of green. 'This is my father', I thought.”

Source/Notes: Poem Mourning and Melancholia

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Al Alvarez

“In I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.”

Source/Notes: The Savage God (1971)

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Al Alvarez

“Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.”

Source/Notes: The Savage God (1971)

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