Kate Braverman Quotes

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• To be one woman, truly, wholly, is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds.
• All my friends are artists, so I am used to collective agony as a mode.
• The Peruvian flute music is . . . cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution that leads to excessive punctuality…
• All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do a pyramid. One word, one…
• Like I'm dragging bundles of old clothes? I'm carrying artifacts that breathe fire. I'm talking about a language of smoke. These are three-dimensional creatures that…
• As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.
• Women are defined by their biography, and men are sacrosanct from their biography.
• I have a great ability to improvise verbally and I am very funny on a dime.
• In communist countries, you execute your poets. In the free world, the poets execute themselves.
• Just being in a room with myself is almost more stimulation than I can bear.
• I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the resurrection of the dead. I…
• I know California isn't a real destination. You can't get there from New Jersey, not simply by following a line drawn on a map. The…
• Women have waited millions of years, growing separate as another species, with visions and priorities no man-words, no man-measurements can comprehend.
• Writing is like hunting. There are brutally cold afternoons with nothing in sight, only the wind and your breaking heart. Then the moment when you…
• They will say I smoked cigarettes and marijuana, cursed hoarse as a crow in all my languages, and loved morphine and Demerol and tequila and…
• If you can be anything else but a writer, be it.
• Unfortunately, the more chaotic the society, the greater is the desire for conservative, nonconfrontational art.

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