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

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

Jacques Derrida
Giving, Temptation, Would Be
Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.116, Stanford University Press

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
"Points...: Interviews, 1974-1994".

I love language as I love life itself!

Jacques Derrida
Love Life, Language, I Love Life

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.

Jacques Derrida
Political, Intellectual, Roles
Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.87, Stanford University Press

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

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

Jacques Derrida
Territory, Institutions, Certain

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.

Jacques Derrida
Dream, Philosophy, Writing

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.

Jacques Derrida
Reading, Kind, Young
Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.342, Stanford University Press

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
Believe, Writing, Thinking
Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.200, Stanford University Press

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.

Jacques Derrida
Years, Trying, Firsts

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
Practice, Personality, Philosopher
Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.410, Stanford University Press

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
School, Paris, Sick

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