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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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If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and…
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Revision, once well done, becomes a sort of automatic itch which you scratch in the next work without thinking about it.
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When you scratch the surface, every one of us has something that we deeply want to contribute to the world. All we…
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The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
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I work in a "you scratch my back, and I'll stab yours" kind of a place.
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If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.
— Janet Malcolm
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On the surface I'm a mild mannered person, that's until you scratch the animal inside.
— Ray Davies
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Essentially, the [New York] Philharmonic is just like any other orchestra-they all have the spirit of kids, and if you scratch away…
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Sure, that's what I mean,' Doc Daneeka said. 'A little grease is what makes this world go round. One hand washes the…
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People are like lice - they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes,…
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He's helped me a lot over the years." "I'm sure he has. You scratch his back. He scratches yours." "I have skin…
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You scratch my back and Ill scratch yours.
— German Proverb
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