Jacques Derrida Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school. – Jacques Derrida Anxiety Quotes Chest Quotes Cross Quotes Discomfort Quotes Institution Quotes Left Quotes Physical Quotes School Quotes Stomach Quotes Symptoms Quotes Teaching Quotes Threshold Quotes 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. No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn’t understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.
Amy Vanderbilt I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made. – Amy Vanderbilt
Jill Abramson People often assume New York City is no place to keep a dog. This is certainly what my parents told me when I was growing up there. But I have found this not to be the case at all. – Jill Abramson
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