Deconstruction Quotes

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I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.

There is nothing outside the text

Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.

Deconstruction never had meaning or interest, at least in my eyes, than as a radicalization, that is to say, also within the tradition of a certain Marxism, in a certain spirit of Marxism.

Deconstruction glorifies the critic, humiliates the author, and makes the reader wonder why he bothered.

I think the purpose of deconstruction is to take something apart and see how it works. If you're not going to put it back together again and watch it go, what's the point?

I realize after spending so long working with images, semiotic deconstruction and redeployment becomes second nature. We all speak with images. I guess I look at everything sideways nowadays.

Deconstruction is not meant to be a soft sighing for the future, but a way of deciding now and being impassioned in a moment.

Deconstruction is great for the intellect, but it hurts the heart terribly.

Deconstruction: peering suspiciously at the text, I wait for it to make a slip and betray itself.

Other people's deconstruction of your motivations doesn't help you do what you do. You can't swallow and think about swallowing at the same time.

In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street.

I'm telling you, I could teach at a university, [George] Carlin, a whole semester. The construction and deconstruction of the words, the language, the order.

To express nostalgia for a childhood we no longer share is to deny the actual significance and humanity of children.

So who is cruel? You, cruel reader, you are.