"Every journalist who is not too stupid or……" — Janet Malcolm
"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."
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Janet Malcolm
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12 Quotes by Janet Malcolm
Janet Malcolm has 12 quotes on this site.
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Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the analyst…
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This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art…
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More Betray Quotes
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He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard…
— Samuel Adams
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The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism…
— Walter Benjamin
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Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his…
— Sarah Bernhardt
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We would betray our values and play into our enemies' hands if we were to treat Muslims differently than anyone…
— Michael Bloomberg
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he…
— Edmund Burke
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I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.
— Taylor Caldwell
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Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
— John le Carre
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I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you…
— Jimmy Carter
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To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
— Lord Chesterfield
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
— Noam Chomsky
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Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they…
— Unknown Author
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By amending our mistakes, we get wisdom. By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind.
— Huineng
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