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Kathy Acker Quotes

The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it’s really the talk for those who have Picture Quote #1

I write it to get it out of me. I don’t write it to remember it Picture Quote #1

A novel is a book with a lot of pages Picture Quote #1

I want to get out of here means I want to be innocent Picture Quote #1

Life doesn’t exist inside language: too bad for me Picture Quote #1

And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool Picture Quote #1

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I’m very staid compared to my students, actually Picture Quote #1

Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive Picture Quote #1

There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it Picture Quote #1

Murder is a dream because lack is the center of both Picture Quote #1

You know I’ve had work banned Picture Quote #1

Pain is the world. I don’t have anywhere to run Picture Quote #1

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The only reaction against an unbearable society is equally unbearable nonsense Picture Quote #1

Love goes away when your mind goes away and then you’re someone else Picture Quote #1

The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility Picture Quote #1

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 their lives Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Everytime you read, you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies Picture Quote #1

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Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I’m grateful when you use it Picture Quote #1

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 it. And the riffs are about timing Picture Quote #1

I wasn’t really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them Picture Quote #1

I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible Picture Quote #1

I think it’s really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever Picture Quote #1

And I’m working at trying to find a kind of language where I won’t be so easily modulated by expectation Picture Quote #1

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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 other society I’ve ever lived in Picture Quote #1

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 difference between me as a child and me as an adult is this and only this: when I was a child, I longed to travel into, to live in wonder. Now, I know, as much as I can know anything, that to travel into wonder is to be wonder. So it matters little whether I travel by plane, by rowboat, or by book. Or, by dream. I do not see, for there is no I to see. That is what the pirates know. There is only seeing and, in order to go to see, one must be a pirate Picture Quote #1

Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified Picture Quote #1

There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn’t bother to read it Picture Quote #1

I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing Picture Quote #1

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 and the approachings of events towards objects, therefore of becoming stases static stagnant, of all that is unreal. You get in the world, you get your daily life your routine doesn’t matter if you’re rich poor legal illegal, you begin to believe what doesn’t change is real, and love comes along and shows all these unchangeable for ever fixtures to be flimsy paper bits. Love can tear anything to shreds Picture Quote #1

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The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it’s really the talk for those who have. (Kathy Acker Quotes) I write it to get it out of me. I don’t write it to remember it (Kathy Acker Quotes) A novel is a book with a lot of pages (Kathy Acker Quotes) I want to get out of here means I want to be innocent (Kathy Acker Quotes) Life doesn’t exist inside language: too bad for me (Kathy Acker Quotes) And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool (Kathy Acker Quotes) I’m very staid compared to my students, actually (Kathy Acker Quotes) Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive (Kathy Acker Quotes) There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it (Kathy Acker Quotes) Murder is a dream because lack is the center of both (Kathy Acker Quotes) You know I’ve had work banned (Kathy Acker Quotes) Pain is the world. I don’t have anywhere to run (Kathy Acker Quotes) The only reaction against an unbearable society is equally unbearable nonsense (Kathy Acker Quotes) Love goes away when your mind goes away and then you’re someone else (Kathy Acker Quotes) The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility (Kathy Acker Quotes) 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 their lives (Kathy Acker Quotes) 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 (Kathy Acker Quotes) Everytime you read, you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies (Kathy Acker Quotes) Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I’m grateful when you use it (Kathy Acker Quotes) 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 it. And the riffs are about timing (Kathy Acker Quotes) I wasn’t really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them (Kathy Acker Quotes) I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible (Kathy Acker Quotes) I think it’s really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever (Kathy Acker Quotes) And I’m working at trying to find a kind of language where I won’t be so easily modulated by expectation (Kathy Acker Quotes) 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 other society I’ve ever lived in (Kathy Acker Quotes) 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 difference between me as a child and me as an adult is this and only this: when I was a child, I longed to travel into, to live in wonder. Now, I know, as much as I can know anything, that to travel into wonder is to be wonder. So it matters little whether I travel by plane, by rowboat, or by book. Or, by dream. I do not see, for there is no I to see. That is what the pirates know. There is only seeing and, in order to go to see, one must be a pirate (Kathy Acker Quotes) Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified (Kathy Acker Quotes) There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn’t bother to read it (Kathy Acker Quotes) I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing (Kathy Acker Quotes) 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 and the approachings of events towards objects, therefore of becoming stases static stagnant, of all that is unreal. You get in the world, you get your daily life your routine doesn’t matter if you’re rich poor legal illegal, you begin to believe what doesn’t change is real, and love comes along and shows all these unchangeable for ever fixtures to be flimsy paper bits. Love can tear anything to shreds (Kathy Acker Quotes)

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