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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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"When disinformation is running rampant, there are two ignorances that may emerge: the one is actually positive, a sort of pure and intentional emptying of the mind; but the other is of course negative and clogged and polluted."
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"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."
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"How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information."
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"But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses."
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"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."
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"If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally."
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"Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application."
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"It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that."
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"Not as much as I used to, but I use the Internet for everything. I use it for information. Like if I'm planning a trip or something, I'll check out the place I'm going to."
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"Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist."
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"I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false."
Science
"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 don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done."
Beginning
"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
"I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist."
Writer
"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."
Argument
"I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it."
Anthropology
"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 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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