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"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."
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"The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock."
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"Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb."
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"Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you."
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"When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script."
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"When trouble ends even troubles please."
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"I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock."
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"It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do."
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"The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
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"I think I'm going to have a lot of trouble."
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"Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it."
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"As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scen."
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"My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible."
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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."
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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

"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 first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages."
Media

"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

"These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate."
Personality

"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

"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."
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