What gives journalism its authenticity and vitality is the tension between the subject’s blind self absorption and the journalist’s skepticism.
~ Janet Malcolm
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What gives journalism its authenticity and vitality is the tension between the subject’s blind self absorption and the journalist’s skepticism.
~ Janet Malcolm
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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing.
~ Janet Malcolm
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Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.
~ Janet Malcolm
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As sleep is necessary to our physiology, so depression seems necessary to our psychic economy.
~ Janet Malcolm
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The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.
~ Sun Tzu
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There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.
~ Sun Tzu
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What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations.
~ Sun Tzu
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Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.
~ Sun Tzu
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