"Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too."

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Walter Kirn

#Faults Quotes #Language Quotes #Obsession Quotes

“Death did not first strike Adam, the first sinful man, nor Cain, the first hypocrite, but Abel, the innocent and righteous. The first soul that met with death, overcame death; the first soul that parted from earth went to heaven. Death argues not displeasure, because he whom God loved best dies first, and the murderer is punished with living.”
“Imagine a different world, one in which people do not spend an inordinate amount of energy fuming against their fate each time they make a mistake. ... though we all agree that to err is human, each of us individually believes that he or she is the exception. ... Make a mistake? Not on my watch!”
“Trimming consists of clipping off little bits here and there from those observations which differ most in excess from the mean, and in sticking them onto those which are too small; a species of 'equitable adjustment,' as a radical would term it, which cannot be admitted in science.”
“Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life”
“For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid.”
“I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.”
“Everything that is dead quivers. Not only the things of poetry, stars, moon, wood, flowers, but even a white trouser button glittering out of a puddle in the street... Everything has a secret soul, which is silent more often than it speaks.”
“I like to be who I am.”

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