--- title: "Meaning & Key Takeaway of: After dinners in Ris-Orangis, Derrida…" description: "\"“After dinners in Ris-Orangis, Derrida would gladly offer to drive home any guests without transport. He enjoyed driving, and always went into Paris by..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28d/beno-t-peeters-15866_derrida_after-dinners-in-ris-orangis-derrida-wou_2639749.jpg" --- # After dinners in Ris-Orangis, Derrida would gladly offer… ![“After dinners in Ris-Orangis, Derrida would gladly offer to drive home any guests without transport. He enjoyed driving, and always went into Paris by car. He’d learned when still very young, on the job, with his father’s car. But since he had never studied the highway code, he had his own ideas…” quote by Benoît Peeters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28d/beno-t-peeters-15866_derrida_after-dinners-in-ris-orangis-derrida-wou_2639749.jpg) [Download](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28d/beno-t-peeters-15866_derrida_after-dinners-in-ris-orangis-derrida-wou_2639749.jpg) [Open image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28d/beno-t-peeters-15866_derrida_after-dinners-in-ris-orangis-derrida-wou_2639749.jpg) > ““After dinners in Ris-Orangis, Derrida would gladly offer to drive home any guests without transport. He enjoyed driving, and always went into Paris by car. He’d learned when still very young, on the job, with his father’s car. But since he had never studied the highway code, he had his own ideas about it, which could sometimes lead to spectacular results. He considered, for example, that most ‘no entry’ signs did not actually apply to him, and that big roads should automatically have priority over smaller ones. At the wheel, he rapidly lost his cool. In traffic jams, he could almost get hysterical. And, to crown it all, whenever he stopped for even a short time he would start taking notes. In a letter to Éric Clémens, he indicated in a PS: ‘Excuse the handwriting, I’m writing in the car (what a life!), but I’ve stopped, not even at a red light. I’ve just thought of the title for a book: Written at a Red Light . . .’33 But while he was not a reassuring figure at the wheel, he never had an accident.”” [Benoît Peeters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beno-t-peeters/) ## About This Quote This interpretation was drafted with AI assistance. It is one reading of the quote, not the author's own explanation. Derrida’s chaotic driving habits reveal his intense curiosity and disregard for conventional rules, yet his safety remains intact. **In simple terms:** He drove wildly but never crashed. Key Takeaway Embrace curiosity, but respect safety. 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