Nayanika Bora Quotes & Sayings

Let us narrow the arguments down further. In certain respects, the theme of supplementarity is certainly no more than one theme among others. It is in a chain, carried by it. Perhaps one could substitute something else for it. But it happens that this theme describes the chain itself, the being-chain of a textual chain, the structure of substitution, the articulation of desire and of language, the logic of all conceptual oppositions taken over by Rousseau ... It tells us in a text what a text is, it tells us in writing what writing it, in Rousseau's writing it tells us Jean-Jacque's desire etc ... the concept of the supplement and the theory of writing designate textuality itself in Rousseau's text in an indefinitely multiplied structure - en abyme. — Jacques Derrida

It's been my experience that worse-case scenarios are very rare indeed. Rare to the extend that you can almost count on them not happening. — Richard Laymon

Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination. — Alan Bullock

Dice have their laws, which the courts of justice cannot undo. — Ambrose

If Education was a guild, I would still be an apprentice. — Kambiz Mostofizadeh