"If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology"

-- Clifford Geertz

#Facts Quotes #Arguing Quotes #Fit Quotes

“You should not separate your life from what you do.”
“My ideas for the next collection always happen a couple of months before the show. I have learned to shut up and not bother my assistants with it.”
“Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a soil rich in wild species ... Mankind has opted for monoculture; it is in the process of creating a mass civilization, as beetroot is grown in the mass. Henceforth, man's daily bill of fare will consist only of this one item.”

Source : Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.44, Penguin
“Is life worth living? Yes, so long as there is wrong to right. So long as faith with freedom reigns and loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains to leaven lowly lives; While there is only one untrodden tract for intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still.”
“And telling a story, I suppose, is like winding a skein of spun yarn- you sometimes lose track of the beginning.”

Source : Edith Pattou (2014). “North Child”, p.10, Usborne Publishing Ltd
“I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.”
“I wanted folks who glibly compared someone else to Hitler or to Nazis to think a bit harder about the Holocaust.”
“You’re not supposed to animate drawings. You’re supposed to animate feelings.”

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