“The paradigm for all texts consists of a figure (or a system of figures) and its deconstruction.”— Paul de Man
“DNA was about deconstruction. We were trying to take rock music apart and see what it was made of.”— Arto Lindsay
“The paradigm for all texts consists of a figure (or a system of figures) and its deconstruction.”— Paul de Man
“Deconstruction is not a dismantling of the structure of a text, but a demonstration that it has already dismantled itself.”— Paul de Man
“Nothing, whether deed, word, thought, or text, ever happens in relation, positive or negative, to anything that precedes, follows, or exists elsewhere, but only as a random event...”— Paul de Man
“The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions.”— Paul de Man
“Deconstruction is not a dismantling of the structure of a text, but a demonstration that it has already dismantled itself.”— Jacques Derrida
“When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.”— William Gibson
“Deconstruction is not a dismantling of the structure of a text, but a demonstration that it has already dismantled itself.”— Barbara Johnson