Kathy Acker Quotes

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• But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men.
• The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility.
• The whole world is men's bloody fantasies.
• And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.
• GET RID OF MEANING. YOUR MIND IS A NIGHTMARE THAT HAS BEEN EATING YOU: NOW EAT YOUR MIND.
• There's a point at which when I start to know a man well--this isn't true of women--I wonder whether there's something in him that's evil.…
• I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing.
• Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.
• Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it.
• Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of…
• You know I've had work banned.
• Thats what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.
• I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that,…
• Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating.
• The only reaction against an unbearable society is equally unbearable nonsense.
• One of the most destructive forces in the world is love. For the following reason: The world is a conglomeration of objects, no, of events…
• We don't have a clue what it is to be male or female, or if there are intermediate genders. Male and female might be fields…
• Perhaps if human desire is said out loud, the urban planes, the prisons, the architectural mirrors will take off, as airplanes do. The black planes…
• I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.
• I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by…

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