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"I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist."
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"So the lover must struggle for words."
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"If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer."
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"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."
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"Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are."
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"The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine."
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"All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour."
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"The writer is more concerned to know than to judge."
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"Sean's a great, great writer."
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"Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand."
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"Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot."
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"I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done."
Beginning
"I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now."
People
"The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about."
Beauty
"Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him."
People
"I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it."
Anthropology
"We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard."
Nature
"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
"I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist."
Writer
"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
"I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style."
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