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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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"We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud."

"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."

"You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over."

"I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do."

"I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break."

"In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will."

"I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity."
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"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."

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

"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."
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