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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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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."
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"You may not be able to change the course of government, but you can achieve some peace. And books were the path to that. I grew up in a house where books were everywhere."
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"When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults."
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"I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world."
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"I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece."
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"We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study."
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"Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please."
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"The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books."
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"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
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"In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them."
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"I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves."
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"If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code."
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"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars."
Anthropology
"I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere."
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"The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive."
Anthropology
"I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things."
Soul
"I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it."
Anthropology
"The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable."
Mother
"Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is."
Anthropology
"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."
Anthropology
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