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"People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous."
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"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."
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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
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"It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
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"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."
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"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
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"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."
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"I think that, you know, this is a different year than most years. We've got to tell the American people that we have to live with less. We have a $13.5 trillion debt. And the only way to do that is an honest campaign with honest people."
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"You can stroke people with words."
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"One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide."
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"I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves."
Time
"If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code."
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"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars."
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"I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere."
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"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 think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false."
Science
"I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things."
Soul
"I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it."
Anthropology
"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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"My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things."
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