"Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets."

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Source : "Some Statements and Truisms about Neologisms, Newisms, Postisms, Parasitisms, and other small Seismisms", The States of Theory, ed. David Carroll, New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.

Jacques Derrida

#Creativity Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Pet Quotes

“In sport there is never any moment that is the same as the other. I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.”
“The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!”
“Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low.' We want it to read that we changed the world.”
“Know that you are worth so much more than the value you place on your body. It's not the only thing that defines you.”
“Who are you? What is your distinct contribution? That is so valuable whether it gets you anything or not. Trophies? Doesn't matter. If you know you did it, that's what keeps you going, you know? Success is illusive.”
“The one state/two state debate is irrelevant as Israel and the US consolidate Greater Israel.”
“The arrows of malevolence ... however barbed and well pointed, never can reach the most vulnerable part of me; though, whilst I am up as a mark, they will be continually aimed.”
“Every child is a gifted child.”

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