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"Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology."
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"And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight."
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"I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break."
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"Some people - and a high percentage of submissives - wanted clear-cut rules. Preferred their duties laid out, like schedules and lists."
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"The golden rule is that there are no golden rules."
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"There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules."
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"We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud."
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"We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It's a calibration on a case-by-case basis."
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"There aren't any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So you're just kind of brought up to feel-in any field, if you say you can do it, do it. There it is."
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"I like breaking the rules."
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"I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules."
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"The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound."
Life
"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."
Desire
"These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try."
Writing
"Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology."
Rules
"I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous."
Being
"In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays."
Philosophy
"Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution."
Reading
"Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides."
Writing
"I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior."
Time
"Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture."
Cultural
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