Deconstruction Theory Quotes & Sayings

Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again. — Madison Smartt Bell

I'm as relaxed as I've been since waking up on this island. If I hadn't been blindfolded, bound, and sodomized, I would've thought I was in a spa. — Anna Zaires

The dream of life is really an illusion, and everybody lives in the reality he or she creates - a virtual reality that is only true for the one who creates it. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

It is the common peoples duty to police the police. — Steven Magee

The 1980s witnessed radical advances in the theorisation of the study of literature in the universities. It had begun in France in the 1960s and it made a large impact on the higher education establishments of Britain and America. New life was breathed into psychoanalytic and Marxist theory, while structuralism gave way to post-structuralism. The stability of the text as a focus of study was challenged by deconstruction, a theory developed by the French philosopher, Jacques Derrida, which represented a complete fracture with the old liberal-formalist mode of reading. Coherence and unity were seen as illusory and readers were liberated to aim at their own meanings. Hardy's texts were at the centre of these theoretical movements, including one that came to prominence in the 1980s, feminism. — Geoffrey Harvey

Except for the primitive markers of day and night, time lay ahead of me in continuous, undefined mass. — Alice Steinbach

We've got to establish a Socialist economic structure that will limit private profit-oriented businesses. Whether the transition is peaceful depends on the way our present governmental leaders react. We must commit our lives to this transition ... We should be very proud of our new breed of soldier. It's not organized but it's mutiny, and they have every right. — Jane Fonda

Rouge of my heart, intertwined with double-hued destiny,
Thread of my thoughts, constant and rubicund legacy,
Filament of my future, endeared unto my expectation,
Cord of my emotion, seared with eternal elation. — Jasper Fforde

I just ultimately wanted to be a mother. I love children. — Katherine Heigl

[deconstruction and other French theories] was the gift of the French. They gave Americans a language they did not need. It was like the Statue of Liberty. Nobody needs French theory. — Jean Baudrillard

The opposite of what is noised about concerning men and things is often the truth.
[Fr., Le contraire des bruits qui courent des affaires ou des personnes est souvent la verite.] — Jean De La Bruyere

Writing a story bends time and warps reality. It gives the writer prior knowledge in the reader's future... — RO Smit

Concealed within those pages, there hides a wondrous secret. — Dan Brown

You could hear the stereo from the downstairs neighbors just fine. They were playing Metallica. Playing isn't really the right verb for Metallica, I guess. Grinding, maybe. Extruding. — Rick Riordan

...prayer makes us more sensitive to the manifestations of institutionalized lies. — Frei Betto