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No one thinks of how much blood it costs.

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The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

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Never judge a work of art by its defects.

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Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling.

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

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

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

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

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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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I'm good at reading people.

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

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

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I hate writing.

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My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.

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I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.

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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.

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I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.

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Every intelligent person, whether he's an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.

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I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it.

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