These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate. Jacques Derrida More Quotes by Jacques Derrida More Quotes From Jacques Derrida Why is it apparently the philosopher who is expected to be "easier" and not some scientist or other who is even more inaccessible to the same readers? Jacques Derrida philosopher scientist easier During the fifteen or twenty years in which I tried - it was not always easy with publishers, newspapers, etc. - to forbid photographs, it was not at all in order to mark a sort of blank, absence, or disappearance of the image; it was because the code that dominates at once the production of these images, the framing they are made to undergo, the social implications (showing the writer's head framed in front his bookshelves, the whole scenario) seemed to me to be, first of all, terribly boring, but also contrary to what I am trying to write and to work on. Jacques Derrida writing order years These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try. Jacques Derrida trying years firsts I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner. Jacques Derrida writing believe thinking 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. Jacques Derrida paris sick school I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous. Jacques Derrida temptation would-be giving
