Post Structuralism Quotes

#1. Post-structuralism is among other things a kind of theoretical hangover from the failed uprising of '68, a way of keeping the revolution warm at the level of language, blending the euphoric libertarianism of that moment with the stoical melancholia of its aftermath.

Terry Eagleton

#2. Just handle the books gently and you'll get along fine.

Patrick Rothfuss

#3. There are some sins which are more justly to be denominated surprises than infidelities. To such the world should be lenient, as, doubtless, Heaven is forgiving.

Jean Baptiste Massillon

#4. And I'm pretty sure that everyone in the Pacific Northwest heard Ryan Dean West shout, YOUSTEPPEDONMYFUCKINGNUTSYOUSONOFABITCH!

Andrew Smith

#5. attach yourself to people and organizations who are already successful and subsume your identity into theirs and move both forward simultaneously.

Ryan Holiday

#6. To his ear, of course, she suffered some from that malady of her generation- an almost laconic indifference toward speaking concisely- a circling and avoidance of linguistic specificity that bordered on a verbal form of shoulder-shrugging.

Steve Amick

#7. Though I thought there weren't any words any more, only fucking signifiers. And since texts have no objective univocal meaning, I feel sure that when I call you a bunch of moronic cunts you will be able to decode that sequence of sequential signifiers with the appropriate emancipated subjectivity.

Jonathan Lynn

#8. We need a visible past, a visible continuum, a visible myth of origin to reassure us as to our ends, since ultimately we have never believed in them.

Jean Baudrillard

#9. Nothing changes if you don't take a risk.

Alexandra Bracken

#10. Dante felt awful for whatever sorry fucker fell in love with his daughter. May God save that poor man's soul because Dante sure as hell wouldn't.

Bethany-Kris

#11. The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

Pablo Picasso

#12. Never despise a pawn. If it succeeds in crossing the board safely, it becomes a queen - the most powerful piece in the game.

Ellen Renner

#13. Because if you were God, it stood to reason your real enemy would be boredom. Sully

Richard Russo

#14. Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!

Susan Sontag

#15. When a hurricane thrashes the mid-Atlantic, my hilly town often reaps the fringe of the storm. The rain starts blowing sideways, and sometimes we see hail the size of purie marbles.

Diane Ackerman

#16. Then, as now, there were always girls who were overlooked and ignored by gentlemen who really should have known better.

Lisa Kleypas

#17. We think of and talk about the Industrial Revolution as a singular event, but in reality, it spanned decades. It wasn't really a revolution but a gradual evolution with revolutionary implications.

Alex Moazed

#18. these things aren't completely your fault completely.

P.A. Jones

#19. The appeal to the 'natural' is one of the most powerful aspects of common-sense thinking but it is a way of understanding social relations which denies history and the possibility of change for the future.

Chris Weedon