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Jacques Derrida

"Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides."

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Donna Grant

"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."

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Donna Grant

"Writing is my pleasure and the play,where I find myself again and again."

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Donna Grant

"Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself."

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Donna Grant

"There are days when writing is within my power and a story unfolds along a course I've already chosen. And then there are days when the words breathe on their own and take me by the hand, leading me along unfathomed paths. Either way, the end result is this author's fairytale."

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Donna Grant

"My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother."

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Donna Grant

"Writing is a disease of the mind, which is expressed through a pen."

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Donna Grant

"A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents."

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Donna Grant

"What makes a writer a prophet is his ability to speak truth..."

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Donna Grant

"The eloquence of the pen is just as sharp as the point of a sword."

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Donna Grant

"A writer illuminates the lights of her heart so that everyone can see themselves in the mirror of her thoughts."

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Jacques Derrida
"I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan."

Life

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Jacques Derrida
"In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it."

Dream

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Jacques Derrida
"Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides."

Writing

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Jacques Derrida
"Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution."

Reading

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Jacques Derrida
"I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous."

Being

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Jacques Derrida
"In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays."

Philosophy

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Jacques Derrida
"I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned."

Trouble

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Jacques Derrida
"The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages."

Media

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Jacques Derrida
"I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles."

Argument

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Jacques Derrida
"The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown."

Experience

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