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“The bricoleur, says Levi-Strauss, is someone who uses 'the means at hand,' that is, the instruments he finds at his disposition around him, those which are already there, which had not been especially conceived with an eye to the operation for which they are to be used and to which one tries by trial and error to adapt them, not hesitating to change them whenever it appears necessary, or to try several of them at once, even if their form and their origin are heterogenous鈥攁nd so forth. There is therefore a critique of language in the form of bricolage, and it has even been said that bricolage is critical language itself鈥f one calls bricolage the necessity of borrowing one's concepts from the text of a heritage which is more or less coherent or ruined, it must be said that every discourse is bricoleur.”
― Jacques Derrida, Structure, Sign, and Play

“You don't bless what you love...It's when you want to love and you can't manage it. You stretch out your hands and you say God forgive me that I can't love but bless this thing anyway...We have to bless what we hate...It would be better to love, but that's not always possible.”
― Graham Greene, Complete Short Stories

“If you're a sailor, best not know how to swim. Swimming only prolongs the inevitable鈥攊f the sea wants you and your time has come.”
― James Clavell, Tai-Pan

“Gods are like people. They believe anything if you tell them right way.”
― James Clavell, Tai-Pan

“There is no sense in doing without the concepts of metaphysics in order to attack metaphysics. We have no language鈥攏o syntax and no lexicon鈥攚hich is alien to this history; we cannot utter a single destructive proposition which has not already slipped into the form, the logic, and the implicit postulations of precisely what it seeks to contest.”
― Jacques Derrida, Structure, Sign, and Play

“So easy now that Elder Sister has explained to her what all young girls in houses are taught鈥攖hat with care and meticulous acting and tears of pretended pain and fear, and the final modest telltale stains cautiously placed, a girl can, if necessary, be virgin ten times for ten different men.”
― James Clavell, Tai-Pan

“why be bothered with other people's set-ups? it only leads to torture.”
― Bob Dylan

“In the center of the movement, as the motor that swings it onto motion, sits the Leader. He is separated from the elite formation by an inner circle of the initiated who spread around him an aura of impenetrable mystery which corresponds to his 鈥渋ntangible preponderance.鈥� His position within this intimate circle depends upon his ability to spin intrigues among its members and upon his skill in constantly changing its personnel. He owes his rise to leadership to an extreme ability to handle inner-party struggles for power rather than to demagogic or bureaucratic-organizational qualities. He is distinguished from earlier types of dictators in that he hardly wins through simple violence. Hitler needed neither the SA nor the SS to secure his position as leader of the Nazi movement; on the contrary, 搁枚丑尘, the chief of the SA and able to count upon its loyalty to his own person, was one of Hitler鈥檚 inner-party enemies. Stalin won against Trotsky, who not only had a far greater mass appeal but, as chief of the Red Army, held in his hands the greatest power potential in Soviet Russia at the time. Not Stalin, but Trotsky, moreover, was the greatest organizational talent, the ablest bureaucrat of the Russian Revolution. On the other hand, both Hitler and Stalin were masters of detail and devoted themselves in the early stages of their careers almost entirely to questions of personnel, so that after a few years hardly any man of importance remained who did not owe his position to them.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

“... the central signified, the original or transcendental signified, is never absolutely present outside a system of differences. The absence of the transcendental signified extends the domain and the interplay of signification ad infinitum.”
― Jacques Derrida, Structure, Sign, and Play

“Social psychologist argued that even severe mental illness was the result of society labeling unusual behavior rather than of biochemical processes.”
― Thomas Scheff

“The fearful happenings of the second game need not be lingered over, being now as well known as the circumstances surrounding the fall of Troy. Until the gods began their heavy-handed meddling, it was a fine, fast game, with the Dodgers having somewhat the better of it.”
― Roger Angell, The Summer Game

“There have been several intellectual lesbians of physical distinction: Collette, Gertrude Stein, Willa Cather, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Carson McCullers, Jane Bowles; and, in altogether another category, simple endearing prettiness, both Eleanor Clark and Katherine Anne Porter deserve their reputations. But Alice Lee Langman was a perfected presence, an enameled lady marked with the androgynous quality, that sexually ambivalent aura that seems a common denominator among certain persons whose allure crosses all frontiers--a mystique not confined to women, for Nureyev has it, Nehru had it, so did the youthful Marlon Brando and Elvis Presley, so did Montgomery Clift and James Dean.”
― Truman Capote