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Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our…
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Writing cannot be done in a state of desirelessness,
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Malice remains its animating impulse.
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Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and ‘the public’s…
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The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive,
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The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a…
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If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.
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The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure,…
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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.
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Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the analyst to cover…
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This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not…
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Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he…
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