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Janet Malcolm Quotes

Although psychoanalysis has influenced me personally, it has had curiously little influence on my writing. This may be because writers learn from other writers, not from theories.

Janet Malcolm

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1934

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Me Writing Influence Learn Little

My daughter, the one who lives nearby, is raising her children to be very much aware. We went on a nature walk on Monday; I'm learning so much from her.

Joanne Woodward

Nature Learning Daughter Children

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

Jessamyn West

Honesty Hurt Trying Done More Harm

Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.

John Burroughs

Concrete Abstract Whitman Emerson

Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the state senate. This country needs a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. We need to live within our means.

John Barrasso

Live Constitution Budget Country

In general, you don't want to move your kids when they're teenagers. They're not going to be happy with you.

Jeremy Sisto

Happy Be Happy You Want Going Move

When you are entrusted with an assignment, you do your best.

Tu Youyou

Best Do Your Best You Your Entrusted

'Why' is a question no animal can ask, because both the question and answers require speech. Have you ever seen an animal shrug?

Tom Wolfe

Animal Speech You Why Question Ask

At 150 pounds, I feel like I'm at my healthiest and my strongest and my most beautiful.

Ronda Rousey

Beautiful Feel Most Beautiful Like

I had a vision how it should sound and I put all my knowledge into this product and it is a fantastic product. People still tell me that I have the best musical thing there.

Miroslav Vitous

Knowledge Vision Best People Me

Sometimes a song becomes rhetoric, but you have to really empathise. You also have to leave room for both sides of the argument: even if you're not telling the other side, you have to put that part in parentheses and make sure it's understood.

Jason Isbell

Song You Argument Sometimes Rhetoric

We can't afford to leave Afghanistan to the Taliban and the terrorists.

Condoleezza Rice

Afghanistan Leave Taliban Afford

People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.

Antonia Fraser

Police People Hands Get Just Books