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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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"Rules are rules... sometimes we should get out of them other times we get caugh for breaking the rules... but what happens when a relative is affected in your work?Like you have to choose the relative or the work... what happens then!?"
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"I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break."
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"A little more movement of the defensive side of the ball, some rules that will be unnoticed, but a big rule will be allowing the jack linebacker to move out of the box sideline to sideline."
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"A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions."
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"Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things."
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"I like rules that are broken."
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"That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things."
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"Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them."
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"Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules."
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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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"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."
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"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."
Experience

"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

"I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles."
Argument

"I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous."
Being

"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

"The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound."
Life

"Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution."
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"I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan."
Life

"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
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