"A lawsuit is to ordinary life what war is to peacetime. In a lawsuit, everybody on the other side is bad. A trial transcript is a discourse in malevolence."

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Source : Janet Malcolm (2011). “The Journalist and the Murderer”, p.63, Vintage

Janet Malcolm

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“God, I love the "fine morality" of the wealthy and powerful. You'll spill tears over your own, in a heartbeat. And then never even look twice at people below you, whose very lives are ground under every day, day after day, year after year.”

Source : David Weber, Eric Flint (2003). “Crown of Slaves”, p.248, Baen Books
“I always try and do everything I can to the best of my abilities, single aspect has to be perfect.”
“All advertising, whether it lies in the field of business or of politics, will carry success by continuity and regular uniformity of application.”
“The Al Gore movie cashed in on his personality and the question of where he had been in the six years since his failed US presidential bid. The same movie starring any NASA scientist would have lost money.”
“I love athletics. As an athlete, I like to believe I can still do the things I used to do when I was once young.”
“And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.”
“No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.”
“I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.”

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