Kathy Acker Quotes

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• We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which…
• It was only when we were in that bed, high above the world - then I thought the birds could have been circling around our…
• You create identity, you're not given identity per se. What became more and more interesting to me wasn't the I, it was text because it's…
• Women need to become literary criminals, break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of…
• It's all up to you, girls. You have to be strong. These are the days of post-women's liberation. You have grown up by now and…
• We come crawling through these cracks, orphans, lobotomies; if you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything. Whole rotten world come…
• First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.
• I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.
• I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.
• I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.
• I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.
• On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any…
• Love goes away when your mind goes away and then you're someone else.
• ...'cause humans, above all, fear intelligence. how humans, scared out of their minds, gather whatever intelligence they can put their hands on and put it…
• i am a limitless series of natural disasters and all of these disasters have been unnaturally repressed.
• Murder is a dream because lack is the center of both.
• There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it.
• Death is another bar which lies several steps below the normal world. I'm at its threshold, but not yet in it. Its doorway is doorless.
• Dreams are manifestations of identities.
• A novel is a book with a lot of pages.

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