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

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Source : John D. Caputo (1997). “The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion Without Religion”, p.125, Indiana University Press

John D. Caputo

#Way Quotes #Moments Quotes #Deconstruction Quotes

“Man is his own star, and the soul that can, render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate: nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts are angels are, for good or ill: our fatal shadows that walk by us still.”
“As a matter of fact it wasn't until after BIG passed and stupid rumors went around that I had something to do with it, and it's like I'm not a killer man , I'm a musician, I'm a DJ we got like a different heart. Ya know back then when rappin' was fun, and we could immolate being gangstas; ya know Dr. Dre made the hardest gangsta rap records in the world, that didn't necessarily make him a gangsta. It was all like ya know : character, we were all in character.”
“Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.”
“I'm an artist...The difference is that I don't tell anybody. I refuse to give them new reasons to laugh at me.”
“In my everyday life, I just wear jeans, t-shirts and trainers - if I can go barefoot, that's even better. But for the events I have a stylist, and in two hours we have selected a whole outfit.”
“My mother - my stepmother, really, she herself have been what they call an elocutionist. And she was the one who first encouraged me to write poetry, because she used to read it to us. And then when I began to write when I was nine years old, my first poem was published in the Amsterdam News. I called it "The Graveyard."”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“I like to work in costumes, makeup, and hair that allow me tremendous freedom.”
“I'm glad things are getting better, but I'm going to push and be pissed off until they're perfect. That will probably never happen, but I feel some weird duty nonetheless. Even though I can get married in Seattle, I could go to another country and get the death penalty just for being myself-I'm not making music just for fiancés in Seattle.”

Source : "Perfume Genius" by Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. August 1, 2014.

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