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"I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world."
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"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"
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"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."
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"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."
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"America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description."
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"I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into."
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"I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then."
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"Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom."
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"What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind."
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"Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends."
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"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."
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"The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable."
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"I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist."
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"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars."
Anthropology
"The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive."
Anthropology
"I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style."
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"I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now."
People
"I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means."
Science
"My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things."
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"Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him."
People
"I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false."
Science
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