I'm a bit of a deconstructionist myself. It's kind of exciting – the last intellectual thrill left. Like sawing through the branch you're sitting on.
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Part II, ch. 2, p. 118.David Lodge
Those who try to combat the production of shoddy pictures are enemies of the best art today. Those woodland lakes in a thousand sitting-rooms with gold-tinted wallpaper belong to the profoundest inspirations of art. It always feels tragic to see people labouring to saw off the branch they are sitting on.
Asger Jorn
The saws are sawing wood, But wood is also sawing the saws...The wood sawn into boards is fashioned into furniture. Saws just break and are discarded.
Liu Shahe
So I am just sitting and waiting, listening, and if something exciting comes, I just jump in.
George Gamow
The English mind is intelligent rather than intellectual.The French are intellectual in the sense that the intellect is emancipated and left free to run its own course.
Ralph Barton Perry
I feel a kind of intellectual regret, not an emotional regret, at having left my parents and that world behind. But it's not a great weight on my soul. In a way I wish it were. To leave one’s background without guilt is an indication of shallowness of character, I suspect.
John Banville
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