Quotes by Derrida I guess both Nabokov and Popper had, in different ways, immunized me against the fashion for French-influenced literary theory in the '70s, '80s, and '90s - "immunized" in the sense that they made me no longer susceptible to this epidemic cultural virus. I looked into Derrida and found that he rarely seemed to be interested in truth; he was more interested in making a splash. Brian Boyd derrida fashion different The French still offer Sartre and Derrida rather than Pascal. Robert Bly derrida pascal offers When one emphasizes, as Jacques Derrida once remarked, one always overemphasizes. Terry Eagleton derrida The assumption that Derrida always knows what he is talking about is not Derridean. Timothy Morton derrida assumption talking