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last updated: November 28, 2023

I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de Man was there.
-- Harry Frankfurt

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The assumption that Derrida always knows what he is talking about is not Derridean.
-- Timothy Morton

Source : Timothy Morton (2012). “The Ecological Thought”, p.139, Harvard University Press

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I guess both Nabokov and Popper had, in different ways, immunized me against the fashion for French-influenced literary theory in the '70s, '80s, and '90s - "immunized" in the sense that they made me no longer susceptible to this epidemic cultural virus. I looked into Derrida and found that he rarely seemed to be interested in truth; he was more interested in making a splash.
-- Brian Boyd

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“Take on the pain and wear it as a shirt.”
“I want to get better and make it last as long as I can.”
“Understand that Bluestar does not make this offer lightly if you wish to train with us, we will have to take you into our Clan. You must either live with us and respect our ways, or return to your Twolegplace and never come back. You cannot live with a paw in each world.”

Source : Erin Hunter (2009). “Warriors #1: Into the Wild”, p.18, Harper Collins
“Unarmed hand-to-hand fighting does not change through the ages; only the name changes, and it has only one rule: do it first, do it fast, do it dirtiest.”
“I really think I need to find a home. I don't know if that includes a girlfriend or not, but first I need to find a home, definitely.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“If you really want to improve technology, if you want things to work better and be better, you've got to protect the person who spends a lot of effort, money, and time developing that new technology.”
“Japan's diplomatic efforts could have had a broader international perspective. Relations with the U.S. are, of course, the cornerstone of Japan's diplomacy, but the U.S. acts on its global strategy. For instance, Washington suddenly got closer to China in the early 1970s as part of its strategy against the Soviet Union.”

Source : "Japan should be a peace broker, former UN refugee chief says". Interview with Hiroyuki Akita, asia.nikkei.com. August 19, 2015.
“When we go to God by prayer, the devil knows we go to fetch strength against him, and therefore he opposes us all he can.”
“Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think.”
“Dogs would make totally incompetent criminals. If you could somehow get a group of dogs to understand the concept of the Kennedy assassination, they would all immediately confess to it. Whereas you'll never see a cat display any kind of guilty behavior, despite the fact that several cats were seen in Dallas on the grassy knoll area, not that I wish to start rumors.”