Derrida Quote by Benoît Peeters

“Between Derrida and women (who had been so often ignored by the Western philosophical tradition), an alliance was soon to be formed. A personal…

— Benoît Peeters

“While Derrida had frequently bumped into him, since their first encounters at the home of Maurice de Gandillac at the beginning of the 1950s,…

— Benoît Peeters

“But for some readers, especially Derrida’s closest friends, the allusions to reality at the centre of the ‘Envois’ seemed barely tolerable. Pierre remembers how…

— Benoît Peeters

“With Derrida, you can hardly misread him, because he’s so obscure. Every time you say, "He says so and so," he always says, "You…

— John R. Searle

“Madeline began hearing people saying "Derrida". She heard them saying "Lyotard" and "Foucault" and "Deleuze" and "Baudrillard". That most of these people were those…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Jo’s ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea as yet, but left it for time to tell…

— Louisa May Alcott

“Sumire was a hopeless romantic, a bit set in her ways - innocent of the ways of the world, to put a nice spin…

— Haruki Murakami

“Not all of Derrida's writing is to everyone's taste. He had an irritating habit of overusing the rhetorical question, which lends itself easily to…

— Terry Eagleton

“Just another attempt by Rebecca to connect an everyday occurrence to the literary world. - Adriana”

— Gina Marinello-Sweeney

“This woman is Pocahontas. She is Athena and Hera. Lying in this messy, unmade bed, eyes closed, this is Juliet Capulet. Blanche DuBois. Scarlett…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“And to think, she'd once had the hots for him, back in the old days (six months ago) when razor-thin men with noses like…

— Clive Barker

“Only now, in rhythmic waves, was she struck by her stupidity, her blindness, her estheronautiness , and, above all, her longing, the insult of…

— David Grossman