Les Back quotes

“I'm interested in ways of writing about the social world that don't assassinate the life that's in it”
-- Les Back

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“Podcasting might be thought of as a form of academic gift”
-- Les Back

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“We can contemplate the creation of new kinds of vital texts: curate sociology rather than just write it”
-- Les Back

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“Perhaps the difference between a professor and a bus driver is that the professor can say stupid things with complete authority while the bus driver is not authorized to make brilliant insights.”
-- Les Back

Source : Les Back (2007). “The art of listening”, Berg Publishers

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“You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

“The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.”

“I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.”

“I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.”

“Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.”

“Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.”

“You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.”

“There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.”

Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 16 Nov. 1967

“One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.”

Source : "The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons". Book by A. R. Ammons, 1990.

“She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.”