"The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created."

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Source : Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.283, Bloomsbury Publishing

Al Alvarez

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“I get very selfish at times. I write about things that are interesting to me. Which are often very different. All of these stories, the thing they have in common is that they were somehow interesting. I feel like they're all dispatches from a worldview.”
“I really like comedy. There's always a choice, when you're writing: you can either go for the joke or you can go for the story, the important stuff.”
“I just operate on the assumption that all phone conversations are bugged.”
“If but a few live coals are found in a mountain of ashes, no one should be disappointed. Genius is a rare quality in this world, and there is no reason why it should be more ubiquitous among Blacks than Whites.”
“When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.”
“I am actually wearing slacks on the show more than I ever have - it is now acceptable, and I like mixing it up.”
“Choosing is a creative process, one through which we construct our environment, our lives, ourselves.”
“I am quite a positive man in real life. In fact, even when I have a hard discussion with somebody, it lasts only five minutes. Then I forget. And I forgive everything. But at the same time, as I am such an easygoing guy, to create something more intense, I have to be auto-destructive on the making of a film. And this will guarantee some density.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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