I always wanted to put a sign up on the road to Yale saying, 'Beware: Deconstruction Ahead.' — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Deconstruction is great for the intellect, but it hurts the heart terribly. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“To express nostalgia for a childhood we no longer share is to deny the actual significance and humanity of children.” — Perry Nodelman Copy Share Image
Deconstruction: peering suspiciously at the text, I wait for it to make a slip and betray itself. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Deconstruction glorifies the critic, humiliates the author, and makes the reader wonder why he bothered. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke. — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
'The Last Five Years' was a musical in 2002, and it's a deconstruction of a marriage. — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
We hate our heroes, you know. That's one of the great things about this whole deconstruction thing - there's no more heroes.… — Carey Mercer Copy Share Image
I'm telling you, I could teach at a university, [George] Carlin, a whole semester. The construction and deconstruction of the words, the… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
Deconstruction never had meaning or interest, at least in my eyes, than as a radicalization, that is to say, also within the… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“Authority seems to be nothing other than the vanishing-point of textuality. And Nature is authority whose textual origins have been forgotten.” — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction--a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
That is what deconstruction is made of: not the mixture but the tension between memory, fidelity, the preservation of something that has… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
I realize after spending so long working with images, semiotic deconstruction and redeployment becomes second nature. We all speak with images. I… — Michael Salu Copy Share Image
In matters of religion a skeptical mind is not a higher manifestation of virtue than is a believing heart, and analytical deconstruction… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Planners and designers should encourage as much diversity in human habitats as they find in animal habitats. It is not possible to… — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
Most of my formal choices are a combination of everything I learned about form - semiotics, linguistics, and the history of style… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I would say that deconstruction is affirmation rather than questioning, in a sense which is not positive: I would distinguish between the… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“Man may feel like a feeble and powerless pawn, at some moment in his life. This apprehension can come out of the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
All sentences of the type 'deconstruction is X' or 'deconstruction is not X', a priori miss the point, which is to say… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“I guess that’s supposed to be deconstruction’s original program, right? People have been under some sort of metaphysical anesthesia, so you dismantle… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“An insipid voice message or an incongruent emergence from the “other” world may disrupt our whole thinking system. If we are not… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Certain American uses of deconstruction, Derrida has observed, work to ensure ‘an institutional closure’ which serves the dominant political and economic interests… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“In the life of many churches, the habits of anti-intellectualism are planted early. Children are encouraged to open themselves up to the… — Jon Ward Copy Share Image
“For the same reason there is nowhere to begin to trace the sheaf or the graphics of differance. For what is put… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“A post-modern economy can have the result that everyone lives only for themselves, and not at all for the community – the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Marx was troubled by the question of why ancient Greek art retained an ‘eternal charm’, even though the social conditions which produced… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“It goes without saying that these effects do not suffice to annul the necessity for a “change of terrain.” It also goes… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“Every sign, linguistic or nonlinguistic, spoken or written (in the usual sense of this opposition), as a small or large unity, can… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“Derrida… labels as ‘metaphysical’ any such thought system which depends on an unassailable foundation, a first principle or unimpeachable ground upon which… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Deconstruction is not meant to be a soft sighing for the future, but a way of deciding now and being impassioned in… — John D. Caputo Copy Share Image
In the 1970s colleges were under the reign of a very odd form of literary theory called deconstruction or post-structuralism. — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
It feels like it is a daily work and an ongoing task to undo all of the f - - g programming… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
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