journalism supplies insatiable curiosity

The public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant … The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.

Their attacks are very gross, very impertinent, and very contemptible. No artist expects grace from the vulgar mind, or style from the suburban intellect … And it is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologise to one in private for what they have written against one in public

mimetic desire

memory is a form of fiction

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