“Psychopaths are notorious for not answering the question posed them or for answering in a way that seems unresponsive to the question.”
― Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
― Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
“All the stories had a common thread—that somehow the victims had brought the murders on themselves…”
― Helter Skelter
― Helter Skelter
“The language should be accorded just the same dignity and respect as those other standards that science was then also defining.”
― The Professor and the Madman
― The Professor and the Madman
“[G]ood people are rarely suspicious: they cannot imagine others doing the things they themselves are incapable of doing; usually they accept the undramatic solution as the correct one, and let matters rest there.”
― Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
― Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
“None of us can ever retrieve that innocence before all theory when art knew no need to justify itself, when one did not ask of a work of art what it said because one knew what it did. From now to the end of consciousness, we are stuck with the task of defending art.”
― Against Interpretation and Other Essays
― Against Interpretation and Other Essays
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