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Janet Malcolm Quotes

Fidelity to the subject’s thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation Picture Quote #1

All analyses end badly. Each ‘termination’ leaves the participants with the taste of ashes in their mouths; each is absurd; each is a small, pointless death. Psychoanalysis cannot tolerate happy endings; it casts them off the way the body’s immunological system casts off transplanted organs Picture Quote #1

There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work Picture Quote #1

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph Picture Quote #1

Writing cannot be done in a state of desirelessness Picture Quote #1

Malice remains its animating impulse Picture Quote #1

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The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive Picture Quote #1

Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the analyst to cover over his wounds. The analyst keeps the surface raw, so that the wound will heal properly Picture Quote #1

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people’s vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse Picture Quote #1

This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother Picture Quote #1

Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our hearts Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Fidelity to the subject’s thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation (Janet Malcolm Quotes) All analyses end badly. Each ‘termination’ leaves the participants with the taste of ashes in their mouths; each is absurd; each is a small, pointless death. Psychoanalysis cannot tolerate happy endings; it casts them off the way the body’s immunological system casts off transplanted organs (Janet Malcolm Quotes) There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work. (Janet Malcolm Quotes) If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph (Janet Malcolm Quotes) Writing cannot be done in a state of desirelessness (Janet Malcolm Quotes) Malice remains its animating impulse (Janet Malcolm Quotes) The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive (Janet Malcolm Quotes) Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the analyst to cover over his wounds. The analyst keeps the surface raw, so that the wound will heal properly (Janet Malcolm Quotes) Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people’s vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse (Janet Malcolm Quotes) This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother (Janet Malcolm Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 (Janet Malcolm Quotes)