Janet Malcolm Quotes

What Helen of Troy did in her spare time and what she was 'really like' are not questions that torture us.

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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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