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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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"I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break."
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"The golden rule is that there are no golden rules."
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"Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things."
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"Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments."
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"The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book."
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"If you know the rules, it's not anymore interesting the game, but if you don't know them it's interesting... like what's the feeling to be 24 hours at jail, who can you meet at jail. Do you know somebody from the guards...?!"
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"Restrict bankruptcy rules."
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"There are no rules to writing a song."
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"I had to realize that the use of samples has its rules, too."
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"In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will."
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"As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scen."
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"I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous."
Being

"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."
Dream

"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."
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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."
Rules

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

"Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school."
Writing

"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

"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

"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."
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