"Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution."

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Jacques Derrida

#Territory Quotes #Institutions Quotes #Certain Quotes

“If it is permitted to the enlightened but baffled Statesman, when deserted and fallen from his place, to appeal from the voices of the moment to the judgment of more impartial times, with what right can we call in question the loftier form of the same prophetic trust which looks to a present God rather than to future men?”
“People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.”
“When I'm in Boston, I always feel like I'm home. I almost cry, I feel so good.”
“The top 400 people own more wealth now than the bottom 185 million Americans taken together. That is a medieval structure.”
“Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.”
“We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.”
“More and more countries of the world have decided that corporations do a better job of generating and deploying capital than do states.”
“The secret truth of 'Celebrity Apprentice' is that it isn't very hard... 'Celebrity Apprentice' is easy like junior high is easy. All the arithmetic, the creative writing and the history are super simple, but like junior high, you do that easy work surrounded by people who are full-tilt, hormone-raging bug nutty.”

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