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"I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere."
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"I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind."
"Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world."
"It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks."
"When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask."
"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."
"There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction."
"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."
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"If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology."
"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars."
"It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it."
"The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive."
"I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves."
"People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous."
"I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field."
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