Kathy Acker Quotes
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I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff.
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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.
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I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.
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There's a backlash against womyn that's really bad right now.
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I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.
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And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool.
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Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating.
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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, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material.
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I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.
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That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.
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I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.
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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.
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I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way.
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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 down and break. Let me spread my legs.
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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 which overlap into androgyny or different kinds of sexual desires. But because we live in a Western, patriarchal world, we have very little chance of exploring these gender possibilities.
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I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.
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My nutritionist read my pathology report and said, 'There's only one way you can beat your cancer.' 'What's that?' 'You have to find out what caused it.'
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I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.
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You create identity, you're not given identity per se. What became more interesting to me wasn't the I, it was text because it's texts that create the identity. That's how I got interested in plagiarism.
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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.
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I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it.
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I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?
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At a certain point I realized that the 'I' doesn't exist. So I said to myself: If the 'I' doesn't exist, I have to construct one, or maybe even more than one.
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First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.