“ As a Freudian, I'm not supposed to use words like evil; my business is with instinct, memory, and desire. Nevertheless, I've been wondering, lately, whether evil might exist. If it does, I've been thi… Paul La Farge
“ Clearly, you don't know much about horror, he said. Horror is premised on the experience of what we do not and cannot understand, whereas what you're talking about is mere low-class smut, which every… Paul La Farge
“ The worst mistake you can make, Kroeber taught, is to see another person through the lens of your prejudices. The second worst mistake is to think you aren't looking through the lens of your prejudice… Paul La Farge
“ The worst mistake you can make, Kroeber taught, is to see another person through the lens of your prejudices. And the second-worst mistake is to think you aren't looking though the lens of your prejud… Paul La Farge
“ Always, always, he was holding something. He held his students' attention when they drooped, sleepy with cheap beer, sunlight, tennis. He held a dictionary in his lap. He held the Culhua Mexica in his… Paul La Farge
“ The American id could not be educated, Spinks thought. It needed horror in order to stay awake and to justify its most pleasureful pursuit, the destruction of helpless people who had never done anythi… Paul La Farge
“ Scratch a professor and you find a paranoiac, Barlow thought. But scratch a dean and you find a con artist. Paul La Farge
“ The paradox of anthropology: to see something, you had to be outside of it, but when you were outside of it, you couldn't see it for what it was. Paul La Farge
