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It's about not accepting every challenge thrown at you. Sometimes you hold back and when it's needed you go for it.

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Janet Malcolm

Writing cannot be done in a state of desirelessness.

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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 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.

Betrayal, Gaining, Knows, Morally, Stupid, Trust

[Y]ou never come right out and admit you have stretched the rules for your own benefit. You do it and shut up about it, and hope you don't get caught, because if you are caught no one or no one who has any sense will come forward and say he has done the same thing himself.

Admit, Benefits, Done, Hypocrisy, Same, Thing

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.

Analysis, Ashes, Endings, Immunological, Taste

The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist stands trembling on the shore in his beach robe. The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the grieves and shames of others.

Beach, Grieves, Grieving, Journalist, Novelist, Self

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.

Armed Robbery, Art, Artist, Business, Mother, Robbery
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