Quotes About Deconstruction

#1. Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction
a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on the threads of fantasies and wishes that do not necessarily follow the laws of linear chronology.

Louise J. Kaplan

#2. You can't answer a kid's question. A kid never accepts any answer. A kid never says, 'Oh, thanks. I get it.' ... They just keep coming with more questions - why, why, why? - until you don't even know who the fk you are anymore at the end of the conversation. It's an insane deconstruction.

Louis C.K.

#3. I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication.

Kevin J. Anderson

#4. 'The Last Five Years' was a musical in 2002, and it's a deconstruction of a marriage.

Richard LaGravenese

#5. We all are bound to those around us by glue, and to our pasts, and sometimes we need to dissolve it... They say you need to pull all the pieces apart and stand back to see how they fit together. Deconstruction. But what if then they can't be put back together?

Amanda Green

#6. [deconstruction and other French theories] was the gift of the French. They gave Americans a language they did not need. It was like the Statue of Liberty. Nobody needs French theory.

Jean Baudrillard

#7. Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.

Terry Eagleton

#8. Deconstruction: peering suspiciously at the text, I wait for it to make a slip and betray itself.

Mason Cooley

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

John D. Caputo

#10. I call 2015 a year of deconstruction. I needed to deconstruct myself, my businesses, and find all of the holes in my empire. I had to find holes and fill them with people who could do it better.

Michelle Phan

#11. In matters of religion a skeptical mind is not a higher manifestation of virtue than is a believing heart, and analytical deconstruction in the field of, say, literary fiction can be just plain old-fashioned destruction when transferred to families yearning for faith at home.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#12. That is what deconstruction is made of: not the mixture but the tension between memory, fidelity, the preservation of something that has been given to us, and, at the same time, heterogeneity, something absolutely new, and a break.

Jacques Derrida

#13. What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.

Harold Bloom

#14. You won't talk to anybody who breaks lyrics down more thoroughly. It's just a complete deconstruction, and when you start to rebuild, nobody has the capacity to do it like me. Which is not to say I'm better, it's just that there's a unique quality to everyone.

Harry Connick Jr.

#15. Other people's deconstruction of your motivations doesn't help you do what you do. You can't swallow and think about swallowing at the same time.

Stephen Colbert

#16. Deconstruction never had meaning or interest, at least in my eyes, than as a radicalization, that is to say, also within the tradition of a certain Marxism , in a certain spirit of Marxism .

Jacques Derrida

#17. Deconstruction is great for the intellect, but it hurts the heart terribly.

Eric Maisel

#18. I always wanted to put a sign up on the road to Yale saying, 'Beware: Deconstruction Ahead.'

Gloria Steinem

#19. I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result of a fashion of literary deconstructionism indicating that there are no meanings.

Jonathan Miller

#20. Pastors must practice a two-fold program of cultural engagement: deconstruction and demystification of cultural idols, and reconstruction and re-enchantment of a gospel-shaped worldview.

Timothy Keller

#21. deconstruction is an attempt to break through hardened structures and traditions for the purpose of reengaging the stimulating, life-giving substance that gave rise to the now-encrusted traditions.[3]

J.R. Daniel Kirk

#22. Deconstruction glorifies the critic, humiliates the author, and makes the reader wonder why he bothered.

Mason Cooley

#23. Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.

Berkeley Breathed

#24. Oh see, first off you gotta realize - everything for me is a reconstruction or deconstruction. I would actually say deconstruction. Mission: Impossible would be the exception. That would be a reconstruction- deconstruction.

Danny Elfman

#25. Nutshells close and encapsulate, shelter and protect, reduce and simplify, while everything in deconstruction is turned toward opening, exposure, expansion, and complexification, toward releasing unheard of, undreamt of possibilities to come, toward cracking nutshells wherever they appear.

John D. Caputo

#26. Therefore we will not listen to the source itself in order to learn what it is or what it means, but rather to the turns of speech, the allegories, figures, metaphors, as you will, into which the source has deviated, in order to lose it or rediscover it - which always amounts to the same.

Jacques Derrida

#27. Authority seems to be nothing other than the vanishing-point of textuality. And Nature is authority whose textual origins have been forgotten.

Barbara Johnson

#28. There is nothing outside the text

Jacques Derrida

#29. In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street.

Charles Simic

#30. To express nostalgia for a childhood we no longer share is to deny the actual significance and humanity of children.

Perry Nodelman

#31. So who is cruel? You, cruel reader, you are.

Johnny Rich

#32. I'll take her no mistake no mister no missed her no mist no miss no me no.

Caryl Churchill

#33. I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.

Jacques Derrida