A lawsuit is to ordinary life what war is to peacetime. In a lawsuit, everybody on the other side is bad. A trial transcript is a discourse in malevolence.
Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation. - Janet Malcolm
Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.
- Janet Malcolm
Biography is the medium through which the remaining secrets of the famous dead are taken from them and dumped out in full view of the world. The biog… - Janet Malcolm
Biography is the medium through which the remaining secrets of the famous dead are taken from them and dumped out in full view of the world. The biog…
Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and ‘the public’s … - Janet Malcolm
Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and ‘the public’s …
Malice remains its animating impulse. - Janet Malcolm
Malice remains its animating impulse.
The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive. - Janet Malcolm
The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive.
The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, t… - Janet Malcolm
The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, t…
There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work. - Janet Malcolm
There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work.
Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our hearts. - Janet Malcolm
Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our hearts.
The heavy odds against finding the desired... work of art in the mess and flux of life, as opposed to the serene orderliness of imagined reality, giv… - Janet Malcolm
The heavy odds against finding the desired... work of art in the mess and flux of life, as opposed to the serene orderliness of imagined reality, giv…
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