Janet Malcolm quote: "Unlike other relationships that have a purpose beyond themselves and are clearly delineated as such (dentist-patient, lawyer-client, teacher-student), the writer-subject relationship seems to depend for its life on a kind of fuzziness and murkiness, if not utter covertness, of purpose. If everybody put his cards on the table, the game would be over. The journalist must do his work in a kind of deliberately induced state of moral anarchy."

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.
JANET MALCOLM

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that ...
JANET MALCOLM

The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fear...
JANET MALCOLM

Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qu...
JANET MALCOLM

Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sin...
JANET MALCOLM

Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the...
JANET MALCOLM

Life, of course, never gets anyone's entire attention. Death always remains interesting, pulls us, d...
JANET MALCOLM

Like the young Aztec men and women selected for sacrifice, who lived in delightful ease and luxury u...
JANET MALCOLM

He never asked me what I thought, and I never told him what I thought, because in my view that's the...
JANET MALCOLM

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
MALCOLM X

I've always thought that gaming and YouTube and the web is a very post-punk extravaganza.
MALCOLM MCLAREN

A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.
MALCOLM GLADWELL

America preaches integration and practices segregation.
MALCOLM X

You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by th...
MALCOLM X

Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divor...
MALCOLM TURNBULL

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more ...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

To ask if I am mischievous is the understatement of all time.
MALCOLM GETS

I'm just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do ...
MALCOLM GLADWELL

Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to...
MALCOLM TURNBULL

I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I...
MALCOLM TURNBULL

The way to lose weight is to eat less, so I ate a lot less for a month and lost a lot of weight pret...
MALCOLM TURNBULL

Study after study has demonstrated that people are better off financially, healthier, happier if the...
MALCOLM TURNBULL

Mitt Romney speaking to a $50,000-a-plate Republican fundraiser says he doesn't have to worry ab...
MALCOLM TURNBULL

There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press re...
MALCOLM TURNBULL

If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce...
MALCOLM TURNBULL

China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.
MALCOLM TURNBULL

The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that&#...
MALCOLM TURNBULL

I do not believe we can effectively move Australia to a lower emission economy, which is what we nee...
MALCOLM TURNBULL

I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make su...
MALCOLM TURNBULL

I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of ...
MALCOLM TURNBULL

It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the hones...
MALCOLM TURNBULL

It's not a 24-hour news cycle, it's a 60-second news cycle now, it's instantaneous. It h...
MALCOLM TURNBULL

The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matte...
MALCOLM TURNBULL

When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it&#...
MALCOLM TURNBULL

In economics, one of the most important concepts is 'opportunity cost' - the idea that once ...
MALCOLM TURNBULL

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adop...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

He was not only a bore; he bored for England.
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then th...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people co...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is ...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to g...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction ...
MALCOLM MCLAREN

Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or c...
MALCOLM MCLAREN

I never intended for the Sex Pistols to be immeasurably successful.
MALCOLM MCLAREN

I saw a picture of Elvis in blue lame, and thought that if I could recreate that suit and walk down ...
MALCOLM MCLAREN

Sid Vicious began the age of participation in which everyone could be the artist. Sid proved that yo...
MALCOLM MCLAREN

Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've ju...
MALCOLM MCLAREN

I left school at 16 and my mother got me a job as a trainee wine taster. But one day I followed some...
MALCOLM MCLAREN

The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.
MALCOLM MCLAREN

Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
MALCOLM MCLAREN

I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order ...
MALCOLM MCLAREN

Don't kill the golden goose.
MALCOLM MCLAREN

Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't ...
MALCOLM MCLAREN

There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn righ...
MALCOLM MCLAREN

Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as ...
MALCOLM MCLAREN

What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may ch...
MALCOLM MCLAREN

I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped ...
MALCOLM MCLAREN

I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

I love doing every role I do!
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limi...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

There are no great scripts - just great films.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there'...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

I've always been one to do the work and just hone my craft.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

I don't worry about whether I'm making a masterpiece, because I know that if you get just on...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

If you dunk your head in cold water, you can't stay under for more than five seconds. I mean, th...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherw...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

If you look a little punkish, then they're going to give you the parts. And if you play an iconi...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

I'm not quite as buoyant as I was in my youth.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

I like to razz the Trekkies a little bit. Who doesn't? It's trainspotting, isn't it? But...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are jus...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try ...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

The villains that I play, I always think that they are grounded, wonderful people with enormous inte...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

Once you commit to something, you've got to commit the whole way. Try and make the best of it.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out ...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

You've always got to work with the best if you can, and of course, the best are the best because...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
MALCOLM LOWRY

War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under dif...
MALCOLM LOWRY

Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
MALCOLM LOWRY

Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the t...
MALCOLM LOWRY

An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little...
MALCOLM GLADWELL

The underdog winning is the romantic position.
MALCOLM GLADWELL

Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability...
MALCOLM GLADWELL

As a writer, the best mindset is to be unafraid.
MALCOLM GLADWELL

The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he...
MALCOLM GLADWELL

The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petul...
MALCOLM GLADWELL

I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse....
MALCOLM GLADWELL

In cross-country skiing, athletes propel themselves over distances of ten and twenty miles - a physi...
MALCOLM GLADWELL

What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't jud...
MALCOLM GLADWELL

You don't train someone for all of those years of medical school and residency, particularly peo...
MALCOLM GLADWELL

Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technol...
MALCOLM GLADWELL

It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do.
MALCOLM GLADWELL

If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you ru...
MALCOLM GLADWELL

I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man...
MALCOLM GETS

I was on a series for a number of years, and I got very used to only doing a mini-play per week. Whe...
MALCOLM GETS

Once you have a central character who announces in the first five minutes of the show that he feels ...
MALCOLM GETS

For me, the most effective cabaret evenings have been some of the most personal ones, where the perf...
MALCOLM GETS

I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York...
MALCOLM GETS

I've certainly had periods when I felt like life was winning and I was losing, so I think everyb...
MALCOLM GETS

People die because they find living too painful.
MALCOLM FRASER

Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand.
MALCOLM FRASER

If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropr...
MALCOLM FRASER

Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical c...
MALCOLM FRASER

Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it woul...
MALCOLM FRASER

Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making...
MALCOLM FRASER

Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State a...
MALCOLM FRASER

In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of...
MALCOLM FRASER

Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years...
MALCOLM FRASER

We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people fac...
MALCOLM FRASER

Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requi...
MALCOLM FRASER

Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.
MALCOLM FRASER

There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
MALCOLM FRASER

Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else mus...
MALCOLM FRASER

Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
MALCOLM FORBES

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
MALCOLM FORBES

If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
MALCOLM FORBES

To measure the man, measure his heart.
MALCOLM FORBES

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you a...
MALCOLM FORBES

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
MALCOLM FORBES

If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.
MALCOLM FORBES

If you never budge, don't expect a push.
MALCOLM FORBES

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lo...
MALCOLM FORBES

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
MALCOLM FORBES

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleague...
MALCOLM FORBES

When you cease to dream you cease to live.
MALCOLM FORBES

It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
MALCOLM FORBES

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
MALCOLM FORBES

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, ...
MALCOLM FORBES

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
MALCOLM FORBES

Failure is success if we learn from it.
MALCOLM FORBES

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
MALCOLM FORBES

Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
MALCOLM FORBES

The best vision is insight.
MALCOLM FORBES

The news comes somewhat late, but I'm glad to hear it nevertheless.
MALCOLM CAMPBELL

Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up.
MALCOLM CAMPBELL

The tires were scorching hot, in fact I burned my fingers on one.
MALCOLM CAMPBELL

English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating ...
MALCOLM BRADBURY

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds...
MALCOLM BRADBURY

You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes.
MALCOLM BRADBURY

If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Sug...
MALCOLM BRADBURY

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
MALCOLM BRADBURY

Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular f...
MALCOLM ARNOLD

Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep...
MALCOLM ARNOLD

Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there ...
MALCOLM ARNOLD

Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battl...
MALCOLM TURNBULL

We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating. They are not moral leader...
MALCOLM GLADWELL

Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight...
MALCOLM TURNBULL

For me, my 'X' replaced the white slave master name of 'Little' which some blue-eyed...
MALCOLM X

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter wh...
MALCOLM X

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no...
MALCOLM X

America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.
MALCOLM X

By the time we've made it, we've had it. -Malcolm Forbes.
MALCOLM FORBES

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
MALCOLM FORBES

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
MALCOLM FORBES

That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have...
MALCOLM GLADWELL

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.
MALCOLM X

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the pr...
MALCOLM X

America is subsidizing what is left of the prestige and strength of the once mighty Britain. The sun...
MALCOLM X

EMILY's List members are deeply committed to electing pro-choice Democratic women whom we trust ...
ELLEN MALCOLM

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man,...
MALCOLM X

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.
MALCOLM X

When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do...
MALCOLM X

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human be...
MALCOLM X

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't le...
MALCOLM X

Without education, you're not going anywhere in this world.
MALCOLM X

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the ...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. -Malcolm Forbes.
MALCOLM FORBES

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience. - The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge, 1966.
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropi...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

Concluding a series on the person of Jesus: Jesus' good news, then, was that the Kingdom of God ha...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

Concluding a short series about the early church: The early Christians... enjoyed the inestimabl...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary As out of Jesus' affliction came a new ...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

The various moral and theological and sociological disputes of the day, however progressively resolv...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop ...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

Continuing a series on the person of Jesus: When Christ was in the world, He was despised by men; ...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

The Christian religion finds expression thus, in the love of those who love Christ, more comprehensi...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace
MALCOLM X

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
MALCOLM X

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
MALCOLM X

Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.
MALCOLM X

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a hu...
MALCOLM X

You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
MALCOLM X

Bad, or good, as it happens to be, that is what it is to exist! . . . It is as though I have been si...
MALCOLM LOWRY

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when th...
MALCOLM X

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
MALCOLM X

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today...
MALCOLM X

Achievement is talent plus preparation
MALCOLM GLADWELL

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