Kathy Acker Quotes

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• Life doesn't exist inside language: too bad for me.
• I want to get out of here means I want to be innocent.
• Everytime you read, you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies.
• If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.
• I have become interested in languages which I cannot make up, which I cannot create or even create in: I have become interested in languages…
• I'm no longer a child and I still want to be, to live with the pirates. Because I want to live forever in wonder. The…
• Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.
• But now that she had achieved knighthood, and thought and acted as she wanted and decided, for one has to act in this way in…
• But : We're still human. Human because we keep on battling against all these horrors, the horrors caused and not caused by us. We battle…
• There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn't bother to read it
• Pain is the world. I don't have anywhere to run.
• And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool.
• I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff.
• I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?
• One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.
• You can do whatever you want with my work.
• We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things.
• But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is.
• I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used.
• I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.

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