Janet Malcolm

Name: Forty-one False Starts
ISBN: 9780374157692

Books by Janet Malcolm

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The concept of the psychopath is, in fact, an admission of failure to solve the mystery of evil— it is merely a restatement of the mystery— and only offers an escape valve for the frustration felt by psychiatrists, social workers, and police officers, who daily encounter its force.
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[David] Salle's earlier work had been marked by a kind of spaciousness, sometimes an emptiness, such as surrealist works are prone to. But here everything was condensed, impacted, mired. The paintings were like an ugly mood.
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The concept of the psychopath is, in fact, an admission of failure to solve the mystery of evil— it is merely a restatement of the mystery— and only offers an escape valve for the frustration felt by psychiatrists, social workers, and police officers, who daily encounter its force.
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[David] Salle's earlier work had been marked by a kind of spaciousness, sometimes an emptiness, such as surrealist works are prone to. But here everything was condensed, impacted, mired. The paintings were like an ugly mood.
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The autobiographer works in a treacherous terrain. The journalist has a much safer job.
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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, the journalist stands trembling on the shore in his beach robe.
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