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"Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture."
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"It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.""
"Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture."
"In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture."
"Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up."
"Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture."
"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."
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"The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages."
"I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner."
"The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound."
"I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned."
"I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous."
"These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try."
"The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown."
"No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language."
"In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it."
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