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Michel Foucault has 111 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its…
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To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in…
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Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.
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It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.
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The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines…
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In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
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People can tolerate two homosexuals they see leaving together, but the next day they're smiling, holding hands, tenderly embracing one another, then…
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Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the…
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I wasn't always smart, I was actually very stupid in school [T]here was a boy who was very attractive who was even…
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I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology…
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What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a…
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It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power)…
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We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.
— Mark Twain
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Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.
— William Shakespeare
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Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass away, the ice…
— Johann Gottfried Herder
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We write our own destiny ...we become what we do.
— Chiang Kai-shek
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We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of…
— Unknown Author
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We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto.
— Henry David Thoreau
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We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about.
— Richard Peck
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We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
— Cecil Day-Lewis
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I like myself better when I'm writing regularly. ... I was influenced a lot by those around me-there was a lot of…
— Willie Nelson
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I like any and all of my associations with music -writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and…
— Duke Ellington
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The decisions that we write off as momentary, insignificant, incidental, everyday encounters are exactly when we have a chance to define ourselves.…
— Teri Hatcher
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I've never known a writer who didn't feel ill at ease in the world. We all feel unhoused in some sense. That's…
— Andrea Barrett
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